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284 Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks

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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica @ Wired · 12/17/2025 05:30 EDT

Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

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