A question-based authentication token
Created: 19 Mar 2013 | Updated: 20 Mar 2013 | 7 comments
First of all, I apologize for my bad English.
I am currently using PGP WDE encryption of the system partition.
Authentication is a USB token (Aladdin eToken PRO 72k) which works perfectly. I did not want to set a user password.
With that, I run the risk of disappearing USB token or simply fail one day.
I have a question I can not find a clear answer anywhere.
The question is: If the USB token fail one day and buy a new one and re-export the key for him will be able to access the system again?
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Yes, you can just assign that token to the user again as you did originally with the first one. You can have many tokens to one user
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Alex, I can make this process of re-export the key to a new token using another computer?
An eToken is secure - you cannot export any private keys from it. So, to have the private key on more than one eToken, you must generate your key in PGP Desktop and then import it to the eToken. You can them export/import it from your PGP Desktop as much as desired. And after having all the secure backups you want, you can delete if from your computer keyring if you wish.
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I would expect this to work. Although it has been a very long time since I've seen this discussed, I recall at least one person reporting problems with doing this. So, I would suggest that you actually give it a try to confirm there is not a problem for you.
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Understandable. I would again suggest personally testing it on your equipment, to make sure.
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