The end of public key cryptography?

 

Adi Shamir, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, One of the world’s most prominent cryptographers issued a warning about a hypothetical incident in which a math error in a widely used computing chip places the security of the global electronic commerce system at risk.

Read the rest of this at The New York Times website.
The Hebrew version can be found here (TheMarkerIT).