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wswartzendruber
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: RC4 Has Been Broken

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Listen, if you're using RC4 as your primary ciphersuite in SSL/TLS, now would be a great time to stop. Ok, thanks, are we all on the same page?

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For what it's worth, Google and the Bank of America both use RC4. Amazon does as well. I don't understand why they don't simply use AES.

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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:32 pm Post subject:

because they can good thing you can disable rc4 in firefox _________________ Unofficial minimal livecd x86/amd64 w/reiser4+truecrypt (by Neo2) 2.6.37.2_plus_v1: BFS, CFS,THP,compaction, zcache or TOI Hardcore Linux user since 2004

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