The stream cipher has been widely adopted since 1987, but it’s time to retire the stream cipher in some of the industrys biggest companies. Recent studies have demonstrated how easily attackers could exploit the technology to steal data. At its peak, RC4 was used to support encryption across a wide range of other protocols, including WEP, BitTorrent, Skype and SSH. The vendors decision comes not long after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) decided to prohibit the use of RC4 in the.”]