Claims by a team of international cyrptographic researchers that they've "cracked" the RSA encryption used on a number of smartcards and secure tokens has set off a tempest in security circles. The scientists from France, Italy, Norway and the United States have found a method for compromising the code in as little as 13 minutes. They plan to divulge more details in a paper they will present at the Crypto 2010 conference in August "This could be a big deal because there may be applications out there vulnerable to this attack," said John Hopkins' Matthew Green.
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