Because Bank of America's SafePass program uses text messages rather than the seamless wi-fi signals suggested by RSA's prototype handset, it's slower and costlier than RSA's future solution.
According to RSA's annual report, Hester holds 21,500 RSA shares and last year was awarded 585,431 performance shares which vest in 2017.
Matthew Taylor is the RSA's chief executive.
In April, NetWitness was acquired by RSA's parent company, EMC.
This is not the first time the security of RSA's tokens has been challenged.
Its author was Anthony Painter, the RSA's director of policy and strategy.
Some blog items and articles have suggested that customers would back away from using RSA's SecurID tokens.
The total £200m strengthening of the Irish reserves comes straight out of RSA's annual profit.
RSA's combined ratio – claims versus income from premiums – was 97% in the half year.
As the first chapter of a possible defence document, RSA's first-half results read very well.
"We've never seen this before", said Limor Kessem, RSA's Technical Lead on Knowledge Delivery.
