I'm disappointed that no products in this space support the RSA tokens at preboot. It would be a huge win for any vendor and if someone spent a few minutes thinking about it I don't think it would be that *difficult* to implement. Stop thinking about making a preboot network connection ... that is a overly complex way to look at it. Consider the way RSA does it with a disconnected Windows logon ... just work with RSA to extend that to an always disconnected preboot environment (that syncs up future codes once connected inside Windows). At this point it seems like all the vendors have relationships with RSA already so that shouldn't hold things up ... I say let the race begin. I'll buy the first product that can do it well ;).
Cooper -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SafeBoot Simon Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FDE] Best FDE-Product No, it's not linux based - we found Linux simply got too big when you added all the stuff we needed. No, we don't load network drivers (though we could) simply because we don't need them and to do so woud open up exploits. Also, what drivers would you load anyway? There are hundreds of different network cards.. Remember - we're trying to be small and fast.. As for the dynamic RSA tokens - you probably realise they only work if you have a network connection to an ACE server, so again, no. We support things like the SID800 though which work stand alone. Imagine how hard it would be to support a user with a RSA C/R token working in a hotel over a VPN. We'd need a network stack, card drivers, probably a WIFI stack, VPN, web browser (to allow them to sign into the hotel wifi network) plus the ACE software - might as well just let them load windows and use SafeBoot Content Encryption instead. On Jul 27, 1:40 am, Zac Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's start with performance though - most FDE products use > > propriatary 16bit pre-boot OS's, SafeBoot uses a multi threaded 32bit > > OS, so naturally it's faster, > > Is Safeboot pre-boot OS based on Linux or BSD? If so, does it load network drivers? Can Safeboot use RSA dynamic token for authentication? > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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