Requirements for Smart Card Token Authentication

- Updated:
- 1 Apr 2014
- Product/Version:
- Endpoint Encryption 3.0 DriveArmor
- Endpoint Encryption 3.0 Full Disk Encrypti
- Endpoint Encryption 3.1 PolicyServer
- Endpoint Encryption 5.0
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows 2003 Enterprise 64-bit
- Windows 2003 Standard
- Windows 2003 Standard 64-bit
- Windows 2008 Enterprise
- Windows 2008 Enterprise 64-bit
- Windows 2008 Server R2
- Windows 2008 Standard
- Windows 2008 Standard 64-bit
- Windows 7 32-bit
- Windows 7 64-bit
- Windows 8 32-bit
- Windows 8 64-bit
- Windows Vista 32-bit
- Windows Vista 64-bit
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows XP Professional 64-bit
- Windows XP SP3 32-bit

Summary

Know the requirements for the Smart Card for Token Authentication compatibility.

Details

The Smart Card must meet the following requirements for Token Authentication compatibility:

Important: If the Smart Cards are using .NET tokens, Endpoint Encryption cannot support them. PCMCIA and serial readers are not supported.

Smart Card must have at least 1 certificate.
Smart Card must have Common Access Card (CAC), Personal Identity Verification (PIV), or Muscle applet.
Note: CAC is for Department of Defense users while PIV is for civilian users working for the Federal government.

For more information about Smart Cards and how it works, refer to Smart Card Overview.

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