Initialization And Administration Of The Acer Security Platform; User Authentication - Acer TravelMate 6410 Series User Manual

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User Role Based on...
Security Platform Windows user
Administrator account (local or
(also called just domain),
"Administrator") member of the
Administrators
group
Security Platform Windows user
User (also called account (local or
just "User") domain)
Initialization and Administration of
the Acer Security Platform
The initial status of the Acer Security Platform is disabled by default on delivery
to the customer. This ensures that no flow of confidential information from the
Acer Security Platform back to Acer can occur in this phase, as there are no
shared secrets in any form.
Before you can take advantage of your Acer Security Platform you must:
•
Enable the Acer Security Platform. To enable the chip, please see "Enabling
or disabling Acer TPM security" on page 68.
•
Setup your Infineon Security Platform by starting the Acer Security
Platform Initialization Wizard
•
Setup Acer Security Platform Users by starting the Infineon Security
Platform User Initialization Wizard
Refer to Infineon Security Platform Solution Tools for detailed information
about the wizards and administrative tools.
If the Infineon Security Platform and an Infineon Security Platform User have
been setup, you are ready to obtain an Infineon Trusted Platform Module based
certificate.

User Authentication

For security reasons, you need to authenticate to the Acer Security Platform
before you can use security features. E.g. file encryption requires your Basic User
Key which is protected with your Basic User Password. Typing in this password
User Roles:
Purpose &
Initialization
Tasks
Perform No special
administrative initialization
tasks, which necessary.
require Windows
administrative
rights.
Utilize Security Security Platform
Platform User Initialization
Features, e.g. file enables a Windows
and folder user to act as a
encryption or Security Platform
secure e-mail. User.
Configure
features and
perform user-
specific Security
Platform tasks.
Authentication
Apart from the
authentication as
Windows
administrator, some
administrative tasks
require access to
special token files
protected by dedicated
passwords
Basic User Password