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Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wreaked Decades of Havoc


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recently faced blistering criticism from a prominent...

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