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Encryption Algorithm: Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4)

Summary

Security

Encryption algorithm Rivest Cipher 4[370][371][372][373] is a stream cipher[182][183] that is more malleable[134] than a block cipher[78][79][80][81]. It has multiple vulnerabilities[375][376][377][378][379] (eg: related-key attack[68], distinguishing attack[60], ...), so attacker can apply statistical analysis against it to recover the encrypted text.

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Apache
OpenSSL version: 0.9.8+
SSLCipherSuite …:!RC4
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NGINX
OpenSSL version: 0.9.8+
ssl_ciphers …:!RC4

Affected Cipher Suites