Re: Smartcard / NTFS Encryption

Are you using Windows Vista?
Smart card-based EFS certificates is only supported in Vista
Brian

Hi Brian,

no, thats not true. It fully depends on the CSP. It took me month to find a CSP which supports EFS. In fact I tested it with XP and W2k3 (dont have Vista available yet).

But never mind and thanks a lot - I solved the issues asked in my previous postings.

.

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