For the sake of discussion. Mobile Armor's FDE software fully support XP Tablet edition today. We have production user using it. We use the screen keyboard for all entry.
Regards; Bryan ------------------------------------ Mobile Armor Bryan E. Glancey Co - Founder & Chief Technology Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 400 South Woods Mill Rd. Suite 110 Chesterfield, MO 63017 tel: 877-276-6778 fax: 877-277-7369 mobile: 314-495-2048 http://www.mobilearmor.com/ ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SafeBoot Simon Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FDE] tablets again SafeBoot supports WACOM powered tablets with around 60 different on- screen keyboards.. I'm sure if the manufacturer was willing to share the screen information with us we could support others as well, but most vendors use the WACOM digitizer... On Jul 25, 9:13 am, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found out the hard way that tablets and fde are not a good combo. We > would like to use pre-boot authentication with a password on tablets in > tablet mode (no keyboard). Ideally this would not involve fingerprints. > if we HAVE to I guess we could use usb tokens. I am finding that this is > not a piece of cake and it may be that there is NO product in existence > that can handle the scenario of entering the id/password via a screen > keyboard. Is there? > > The possible choices for laptops are gateway m285e and lenovo x60. (No > levono does NOT provide fde in the "client security center" as they > apparently did in the x41 despite being incorrectly told that they do by > a sales rep. They say that it can be done with an additional product > from utimaco but I can't find anything that describes how that works > anywhere. If how it works is via the fingerprint reader then forget > that. [I personally have never been able to get my fingerprints to pass > one of those on any vendor's model so I'm definitely not going to try to > get users to do it over the phone.)If it works via usb smart card then I > guess we have to deal with the losing tokens scenario which I'd really > rather not deal with :-( > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
