Google will next week begin a gradual deprecation of unsafe crypto protocol SSLv3 and cipher RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP clients.
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Google Set to Kill SSLv3 and RC4 in SMTP, Gmail in June
Google announced this week that it will begin to disable SSLv3 and RC4 a month from now, on June 16.
Google Details Plans to Disable SSLv3 and RC4
As expected, Google formally announced its intent to move away from the stream cipher RC4 and the protocol SSLv3 this week, citing a long history of weaknesses in both.
IETF Officially Deprecates SSLv3
The IETF, in RFC7568, declared SSLv3 “not sufficiently secure” and prohibited its use. SSLv3 fallbacks were to blame for the POODLE and BEAST attacks.