Browser makers slowly strangling weak RC4 cipher

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Browser makers slowly strangling weak RC4 cipher
Ron Rivest. Source: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/
The Mozilla Foundation will join fellow browser makers Microsoft and Google to disable the weak RC4 cipher in the upcoming 4.4 version of its Firefox web browser. RC4 was created by Ron Rivest, one of the founders of RSA Security, in 1987. Although never officially released by RSA, it ...

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