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		LIV2 on July 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RSA is a fragile cryptosystem Indeed the whole point of smartcards are that they're portable HSM's, you can't simply clone a smartcard. You'd even need the pincode if you stole one and would have to use it before it was noticed/revoked. Presumably there are some organisations that use smart cards for EFS encryption in windows but not sure if BitLocker supports it

xaduha on July 8, 2019 [–]

Bitlocker supports smartcards just fine (gotta set SelfSignedCertificates and CertificateOID though).

I don't know much about encryption as a whole, but I have some inkling about smartcards and this makes me suspect this whole article as FUD.

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