Re: Using a flash drive instead of a smart card.

Remember that a smartcard is a container for an X.509 digital certificate. It's the identity claim in the certificate, and the associated private key stored on the smart card, that are used for authentication.

I don't know of any products that store X.509 certificates on USB drives. Perhaps http://www.gemalto.com/products/usb_shell_token_v2/ would work for you, though.

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"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8C4340B1-2751-4B9C-B9EA-9A40AD3D9DB1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is there a way to use a flash drive in place of a smart card for a logon
requirement?

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