Google to Disable Weak SSLv3 and RC4 Protocols to Boost Internet Security

It is finally time to say GoodBye to the old and insecure Web security protocols.
Citing the long history of weaknesses in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptographic protocol and the RC4 Cipher Suite, Google plans to disable support for both SSLv3 as well as RC4 stream cipher in its front-end servers.
While announcing on its official blog, the Search Engine giant said the

How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS

Security researchers have developed a more practical and feasible attack technique against the RC4 cryptographic algorithm that is still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet.



Despite being very old, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) is still the most widely used cryptographic cipher implemented in many popular protocols, including:


SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
TLS (Transport Layer