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Gunnar-Haslinger
Steel Contributor
Jun 21, 2017

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's avatar
    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. 

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Gunnar-Haslinger
Steel 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.
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Jun 21, 2017
Very true!
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    Chris Hallum
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    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. 

    • Jeff Haynes's avatar
      Jeff Haynes
      Copper Contributor
      May 31, 2018

      Was there any more information on what's coming in the future with regards to BitLocker and smart tokens/cards/etc or similar capabilities?

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