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 ...
PC Magazine

stream cipher

An encryption method that works with continuous streams of input rather than fixed blocks. Bytes of plaintext go into the stream cipher, and bytes of encrypted text come out the other end. RC4 is an ...
Neowin

Microsoft deprecates decades-old RC4 stream cipher in Edge and Internet Explorer 11

Last year, Microsoft announced end-of-support for the RC4 stream cipher in 2016 for its Edge browser, as well as Internet Explorer 11. Earlier this year, the company reiterated that it would soon ...
Ars Technica

Stream ciphers cower before Adi Shamir’s cube attack

Cryptography is something of a cryptic field, if you’ll forgive the pun. While one researcher erects the walls of a new technique, another tries to smash it to pieces. Seemingly counterintuitive, near ...
Design-Reuse

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, ...
Nature

Quantum Noise Stream Ciphers in Optical Communications

Quantum noise stream ciphers utilise the inherent randomness of quantum noise in optical systems to secure data transmission at the physical layer. By embedding cryptographic keys into fluctuations ...
Design-Reuse

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 ...