Re: EFS and Smart Card

From: S. Pidgorny [MVP] (slavickp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/03


Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:54:55 +1000


It's an architecture limitation. Maybe smartcards will be supported in
Longhorn. Meanwhile, you're free to try to replace the default CSP.

-- 
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Ling Tang" <ltang7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OwFzorWVDHA.1316@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am still very curious why EFS does not support smart card. If I replace
> the default CSP (MS Base Cryptographic Provider) with my own smart card
CSP
> which implement according to the spec, I can't understand why this does
not
> work.
>
> Cheers,
> Ling


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