Google announced it is stopping support for SSLv3 and RC4 encryption after 16 June 2016. This affects all Google SMTP servers and Gmail web servers.
Οι χρήστες που χρησιμοποιούν τις υπηρεσίες αυτές, όπως οι webmasters που τρέχουν εφαρμογές από την πλατφόρμα του Goοgle Apps και εκείνων που χρησιμοποιούν το Gmail, θα πρέπει να προσαρμόσουν τις υπηρεσίες τους, για να αποφευχθούν τεχνικά problems and downtimes.
In addition, users using older customers electronics post officeυ και υπηρεσιών Web που κάνουν Mission messages via SSLv3 and RC4 will no longer be able to exchange e-mail messages with Google's infrastructure.
"SSLv3 has been out of date for over 16 years and is so riddled with known issues that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has decided that it should no longer be used," explained Google technicians.
"RC4 is a 28-year-old encryption that was impressively good, but now it's the subject of multiple attacks at security conferences. The IETF has decided that RC4 should not and will not be used anymore. "
While everyone was already aware that RC4 was a weak encryption, SSLv3 was still acceptable until 2014 when the POODLE attack proved to the contrary. Some TLS applications are also vulnerable.
Google initially announced that he would abandon SSLv3 and RC4 last autumn, but did not give any time.
