FRANKFURT: Germany's Infineon Technologies said it was aware of, and had taken action to correct a flaw in the encryption used for secure products such as identity cards that was revealed by researchers on Monday.
The vulnerability exposes smartcards, security tokens and other secure hardware chips made by Infineon to a so-called "factorisation" attack, the Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security said.
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