Killing RC4: The Long Goodbye...

[Teddy Rogers]

Killing RC4: The Long Goodbye...

 

Let’s go back to 2011; most browsers supported the TLS 1.0 protocol and the preferred cipher was AES-CBC. Servers and consumer computers running the Intel Sandy Bridge chipset with hardware AES support were just being rolled out. RC4 was an old cipher in its twilight. Little did we know, RC4 would soon return to prominence.

 

http://blog.cloudflare.com/killing-rc4-the-long-goodbye

 

Ted.