This article describes how to disable RC4 while installing Operations Manager.
When you install Operations Manager in a security hardened environment, the setup tends to fail at the account configuration step if the appropriate permissions aren't configured properly.
Important information
In a disabled RC4 environment, when you try to install Operations Manager, you can't pass the Account Validation stage if the steps in the Before you Begin section aren't implemented, and you'll see the following error in the Operations Manager setup:
Operations Manager internally uses a Windows Security API as part of its credential validation process and the requested encryption type isn't supported by the KDC. The client and service should support the same type of encryption for communication.
When a service ticket is requested, the domain controller selects the ticket encryption type based on the msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes attribute of the account associated with the requested SPN.
In an environment that has RC4 disabled, ensure the following steps are implemented:
The user account used to install Operations Manager has AES Attributes enabled on the Domain Controller. Navigate to the user object in Active Directory and verify that the Account options have the following:
Check This account supports Kerberos AES 128 bit encryption.
Check This account supports Kerberos AES 256 bit encryption.
AES Encryption type is allowed for Kerberos on the computer where Management Server needs to be installed. On the Management Server, go to Local Group Policy Editor > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Network security: Configure encryption types allowed for Kerberos > Enable AES Encryption
To disable RC4 in an Operations Manager Management Server, follow these steps:
On the Management Server, go to Local Group Policy Editor > Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Network security: Configure encryption types allowed for Kerberos > Disable RC4.
Uncheck RC4_HMAC_MD5
Run a gpupdate /force command in an elevated command prompt to ensure that the changes are done.
Install Operations Manager
Install Operations Manager using the following information:
In this manner any server or client that is talking to a client or server that must use RC4, can prevent a connection from happening. Clients that deploy this setting will not be able to connect to sites that require RC4 while servers that deploy this setting will not be able to service clients that must use RC4.
Not only is RC4 increasingly irrelevant as a BEAST workaround, there has also been mounting evidence that the RC4 cipher is weaker than previously thought. In 2013, biases in RC4 were used to find the first practical attacks on this cipher in the context of TLS.
Change to the diag page at https://<interface IP address>/diag.html.Under Encryption Settings, enable check box Enable RC4-Only Cipher Suite Support. Click Accept at the top to save the change.
Description. RC4 generates a pseudorandom stream of bits (a keystream). As with any stream cipher, these can be used for encryption by combining it with the plaintext using bitwise exclusive or; decryption is performed the same way (since exclusive or with given data is an involution).
The purpose of this advisory is to notify customers that an update is available for Microsoft .NET Framework that disables RC4 in Transport Layer Security (TLS) and also changes the SSL/TLS default protocol from TLS 1.0 | SSL 3.0 to TLS 1.2 | TLS 1.1 | TLS 1.0 if you are running a .
On the Management Server, go to Local Group Policy Editor > Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Network security: Configure encryption types allowed for Kerberos > Disable RC4.
So what's wrong with RC4? Like all stream ciphers, RC4 takes a short (e.g., 128-bit) key and stretches it into a long string of pseudo-random bytes. These bytes are XORed with the message you want to encrypt, resulting in what should be a pretty opaque (and random-looking) ciphertext.
RC4, also known as Rivest Cipher 4, is a symmetric key stream cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has discouraged the use of RC4 in favor of more secure cryptographic algorithms.
The RC4 support for AD Kerberos authentication is being removed as part of a Microsoft cumulative security update. This update applies to Microsoft domain controllers.
Navigate to System > Configuration > Security > Inbound SSL Options. Under Allow Encryption Strength, select Custom SSL Cipher Suites. From the right pane (under Selected Cipher Suites), remove all cipher suites with RC4. Click Save Changes.
RC4 is not turned off by default for all applications. Applications that call in to SChannel directly will continue to use RC4 unless they opt in to the security options.
Description. In Go, it is strongly discouraged to use the crypto/rc4 package for cryptographic operations involving the RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) algorithm. Avoid the crypto/rc4 package for the following reasons: Weak Security: The RC4 algorithm is considered weak and insecure for modern cryptographic applications.
Also, since RC4 is a stream cipher and not a block cipher, it is more vulnerable to a bit-flipping attack. Finally, RC4 has also been found to be susceptible to plaintext recovery attacks and several other security risks.
NIST has published guidelines and recommendations for cryptographic algorithms, and RC4 is generally considered insecure for applications requiring strong security.
The RC4 algorithm is vulnerable during the initialization phase when the algorithm does not properly combine state data with key data. The attacker can then use a brute-force attack using LSB values.
The working mechanism of RC4 involves the generation of a pseudorandom keystream, which is then XORed with the plaintext to deliver the ciphertext. It initiates with a variable-length key, ranging from 1 to 256 bytes, to initialize a 256-byte state table.
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