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throw0101a on Nov 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Res...

> If that TLS 1.0 device had never needed to support RC4 in TLS to begin with, which practically speaking it never really needed to ...

Except that we did not know about not needing to. When BEAST came out a lot of recommendations said to switch over to RC4:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#BEAST...

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