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Byline: USC Information Sciences Institute LOS ANGELES, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leonard M. Adleman, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of [...]

For years private companies and government agencies have given their employees a card or token that produces a constantly changing set of numbers. Those devices became the preferred method of securing confidential communications online. No one could have access to the data without a secret key generated by the device. Computer scientists say they have now figured out how to extract that key from a widely used RSA electronic token in as little as 13 minutes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]