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SafeBoot Content Encryption Generic PKI Token

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Overview This paper describes the SafeBoot Content Encryption Generic PKI token. It contains a description of the solution, installation requirements and configurations. This paper accompanies the SafeBoot Content Encryption Administrators' Guide. The SafeBoot Content Encryption Generic PKI token (SBCEpkiToken) was developed with the aim to support PKI tokens in a generic way using digital certificates as the means of user identification. The result is that any Microsoft based certificate stored on a smart card or as a soft certificate (.p12) may be used for authentication in SafeBoot Content Encryption.

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Publisher	McAfee	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	PKI

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