Noon Silk wrote:

> From: 
> http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/bad-couple-of-years-for-cryptographic.html
> 
> "Here's the postage stamp version: due to a perfect storm of (subtle,
> but not novel) cryptographic flaws, an attacker can extract sensitive
> keys from several popular cryptographic token devices.

That "postage stamp" summary is incorrect.  You can't extract keys from the 
devices.  Suppose you have a key (or other small datum) encrypted in a blob 
outside the device.  Then you can use the device to figure out the plain key.

Mike
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