Yeah but if they steal the laptop and the token without a pin you have a problem, right? Considering that the token could be plugged into the usb port on the laptop that would seem a concern. The scenario contemplated was sending people with tablets in tablet mode to the door to collect private information from subjects. This would not necessarily be in a "good" neighborhood. So it would be very undesirable for someone to run up and grab the tablet and be able to get at the information on the disk. (Obviously there's unavoidable risk there if the machine is running and the user logged in at the time.)
SafeBoot Simon wrote: > you can have tokens without passwords - smart cards for example where > no pin is required. > > you can also do FDE with Tablets as long as the pre-boot OS supports > on-screen keyboards, which some products such as SafeBoot do. > > On Jul 25, 12:23 pm, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
