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Iron Contributor

Jun 21, 2017

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Smartcard Support for Bitlocker PreBootAuthentication

There is still no support for smartcard or tokens for unlocking Bitlocker protected system volumes before booting (PreBootAuthentication). Only pin and USB key as well as TPM is supported. Any plans t...

Chris Hallum
Jun 21, 2017
While you should not expect support for these types of factors in the pre-boot enviroment you should expect future updates to our disk encryption solutions that will address your requirement using a different and much better approach. For now I'll just tip our hat but I can assure you'll like it quite a bit. I look forward to sharing more.

Anonymous

Jun 21, 2017

I think HP has done something here so that you can use your fingerprint for it.

Gunnar-Haslinger
Iron Contributor
Jun 21, 2017
There are 3rd party solutions which provide smartcard PreBootAuthentication for Bitlocker like the product CPSD SecureDisk. But with windows as a service bringing biannual releases it would be less risk to get in troubles with compatibility issues if this could be a Microsoft provided native feature.
- Anonymous
  Jun 21, 2017
  Very true!
  - Chris Hallum
    Former Employee
    Jun 21, 2017
    While you should not expect support for these types of factors in the pre-boot enviroment you should expect future updates to our disk encryption solutions that will address your requirement using a different and much better approach. For now I'll just tip our hat but I can assure you'll like it quite a bit. I look forward to sharing more.