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Posted by Brian Komar on May 13, 2007, 11:30 pm
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 01:37:06 +0200, Michael Meiners wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to store the certificates for NTFS Encryption on the smartcards
> of my user. It took me quite long to find a CSP which is capable of doing
> so. So far it is working now but now I have some questions regarding NTFS
> encryption.
>
> Im am still experimenting around. First I create an encrypted folder, then I
> export the encryption certificate and import it into the smartcard and
> delete the certificate from the windows store. If I now log off and on I can
> only access the encrypted folder if the smartcard is inserted into the
> reader. The problem here is that as soon I create a new encrypted folder
> windows does not use the existing encryption certificate but generates a new
> one. So I would require to have for every encrypted folder a seperate smart
> card. Any thoughts how I can optimize this?
>
> As I mentioned above I currently move the windows generated encryption
> certificate from the windows store to the card. It would be much more
> elegant if I could generate my own certificates and windows uses them for
> encryption. I know that the certificate requires the "File System
> Encryption" Attribute. In fact some of the certificates I generated do work
> fine and other are just ignored by windows. Is there somewhere a document
> about the requirements of an encryption certificate available?
>
> Kind Regards
> Your M&M
Are you using Windows Vista?
Smart card-based EFS certificates is only supported in Vista
Brian
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