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| Cram course on smart card infrastructure |
| Windows 2000 supports several security protocols and technologies that aim to protect your data |
| from intruders. Many of these technologies still rely on the username/password combination, |
| which is a weak link in the entire security picture. |
| One replacement for the username/password combination is smart cards. With smart cards, you |
| only need a smart card and a smart card reader attached to the computer. To log on, insert the |
| smart card and type the PIN for the card. When the reader verifies that the PIN is correct, you're |
| logged on. To log off, remove the smart card. |
| If you want to use smart cards to log on to Windows 2000, you'll need the following: |
| A smart card reader on every computer |
| A smart card for each user |
| An Enterprise Certification Authority that will issue certificates to users |
| Computers running Windows 2000/XP/.NET operating systems |
| A Windows 2000 server running Active Directory in order to process user logons |
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