Research Reveals RC4 Attack Threatening Web Encryption Security

Two researchers with the University of Leuven have developed a new, more practical attack technique that exposes weaknesses in the RC4 encryption algorithm. RC4 is one of the encryption techniques supported by HTTPS protocol, which ensures the security of web communications, and Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens indicated that their technique is so effective that users may want to consider no longer using the algorithm.

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