When I said that I was somehow thinking it was possible to have a token that didn't require a password. But now that I think about it, that makes no sense. So one would have the exact same problem of a keyboard required for the token I presume? Ok that was a dumb question.... I guess if there is no product that can do preboot authentication via password on a tablet screen this is just not a feasible idea (preboot authentication). Which leaves us to afterboot encryption then which probably will drive having to use tokens to increase security. So we're probably stuck with the tokens.
robin 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] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
