Once-theoretical crypto attack against HTTPS now verges on practicality

Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2015 9:37 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Dan Goodin
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Almost a third of the world's encrypted Web connections can be cracked using an exploit that's growing increasingly practical, computer scientists warned Wednesday. They said the attack technique on a cryptographic cipher known as RC4 can also be used to break into wireless networks protected by the Wi-Fi Protected Access Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.

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