Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

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Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers ...

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