Hello, SecureDoc supports Tablet PC's from a host of manufacturers including IBM. At Pre-Boot, you can log into the machine without connecting an external keyboard. SecureDoc also supports multi-factor authentication on tablet PC's using tokens, smartcards, bio-metric devices as well as PKCS certificates.
Regards, Brian Garner Professional Services, WinMagic Inc. Phone: 905.502.7000 x238 Fax: 905.502.7001 Toll Free: 1.888.879.5879 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ 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 _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
