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| Axalto Adds .NET Smart Card Support for Microsoft Windows Axalto has announced support for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 with its Cryptoflex .NET smart card. Axalto smart cards provide a convenient mean to strongly secure access to corporate networks, applications and information. This support dramatically simplifies the deployment, usage and maintenance of smart cards to secure these networks, applications and information. Cryptoflex .NET is the same advanced technology Microsoft has deployed for its internal corporate badge. With this package governmental agencies and companies can easily and cost-effectively enable their employees to logon, digitally sign and encrypt e-mail, and perform other secure two-factor strong authentication services using Cryptoflex .NET smart cards. Axalto has already delivered more than 47, 000 Cryptoflex .NET smart cards to Microsoft for their internal IT security use. Microsoft's .NET technology corporate badges are used for physical access to Microsoft's facilities and for logical access to its systems and applications by employees. Previously, organizations wanting to take advantage of smart cards for strong authentication needed to purchase and install proprietary systems, which are both costly and difficult to support. Now, simply downloading Microsoft's new Base Smart Card Cryptographic Service Provider from Microsoft Windows Update or Download Center enables the Axalto Cryptoflex .NET smart card on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The upcoming Windows Vista release will have this technology already built into the system. The Cryptoflex .NET smart card is a secure ultra-miniature personal computing technology that runs a small footprint implementation of the .NET framework developed by Axalto. It provides customizable two-factor authentication as well as full cryptographic capabilities seamlessly via the standard Microsoft .NET programming tools and interfaces. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |