Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft will soon deprecate the insecure RC4 encryption algorithm

Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...
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Microsoft is cutting off a legacy cipher that caused decades of damage

Microsoft is finally ripping out one of the weakest links in its identity stack, cutting off a legacy cipher that attackers ...
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CAST Releases First Commercial SNOW-V Stream Cipher IP Core

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — March 3, 2025 — Semiconductor intellectual property core provider CAST today announced a new IP core that implements the SNOW-V stream cipher algorithm to meet the ...
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Scalable IP Core of Vector Stream Cipher

Such high-speed features of VSC come from full-scalable encryption algorithm as described as follows. VECTOR STREAM CIPHER AS FULL-SCALABLE CHAOTIC ENCRYPTION Our VSC is a kind of stream cipher. Thus, ...
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Ciphers, algorithms and keys to the kingdom

In the context of cryptography, the un-transformed message is known as plaintext, the transformation is known as encryption and the transformed message is known as ciphertext. The encryption process ...