{"id":11681,"date":"2013-11-14T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T03:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T03:34:22","slug":"microsoft-warns-customers-away-from-rc4-sha-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11681","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4, SHA-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>RC4 is among the older stream cipher suites in use today, and there have been a number of practical attacks against it, including plaintext-recovery attacks. The improvements in computing power have made many of these attacks more feasible for attackers, and so Microsoft is telling developers to drop RC4 from their applications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/threatpost.com\/microsoft-warns-customers-away-from-sha-1-and-rc4\/102902\">Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4, SHA-1 | Threatpost | The First Stop For Security News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The software company also is recommending that certificate authorities and others stop using the SHA-1 algorithm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RC4 is among the older stream cipher suites in use today, and there have been a number of practical attacks against it, including plaintext-recovery attacks. The improvements in computing power have made many of these attacks more feasible for attackers, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,338,50,698],"class_list":["post-11681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-certificates","tag-encryption","tag-microsoft","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11698,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions\/11698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}