Being a paranoid person, I purchased an Aladdin eToken Pro 64 some time ago to add multifactor authentication to my Windows system. At this time the Aladdin token was widely supported by crypto related software (for Linux too btw) and it was the most prominent one when it came to full disk encryption with pre boot authentication (PGP Whole Disk Encryption and BestCrypt just to name two products).
After switching to a Mac I wanted to use this particular token, of course.
The bottom line of what I have seen so far: support for multifactor authentication with Aladdin eToken and support for full disk encryption with PBA is a tough issue on Mac.
Currently, one has to use two different software products to get some functionality working with the eToken on Mac.
Currently, there is no software product out there, that does full disk encryption and multifactor pre boot authentication on Mac.
This is not to say that Mac is bad or anything, but clearly an important issue like secure authentication and data protection has been neglected by software companies in terms of Mac support.
If you heard about "PGP Whole Disk Encryption" for Mac and "CheckPoint Endpoint Security" products for Mac: forget it!
PGP WDE does not have token support (although the Windows variation has) and CheckPoint - well they are obviously not interested in non-company customers. It is nearly impossible for a private person to get an evaluation, let alone buy the programm.
By the way: CheckPoint also has no token support with their FDE software.
That being said, the only alternative to comfortably using multifactor authentication and some level of harddisk encryption seems to be the SecuriKey product from http://www.securikey.com/.
I have just ordered it and will be writing a review as soon as it arrives.
For the eToken part: I have documented usage scenarios and configuration steps in my Wiki at http://www.emre.de/wiki/index.php/Etoken.
Cheers,
Emre
This is a shame because they sell the PGP 9.10 with eToken WDE !
Hello.
I'm a paranoid person too, and i've been using PGP Desktop Professionnal + WDE (Whole Disk Encryption) with various Aladdin eToken for years !!! And it was working pretty good...
BUT :
Recently, I decided to start developping applications for iPhone and I decided to buy a Mac Mini, and install PGP on it with WDE (I'm still a paranoid person ;-) ) activated using eToken BECAUSE PGP SAID IT WAS SUPPORTED and working perfectly.
But the shame is that eToken are not supported on the Mac OS X, even after trying to install Aladdin PKI CLient 4.55 drivers a couple of times, PGP refuse to reconize the eTokens !
Worth than that : I didn't even see the checkbox 'Generate key on token' on the key generation dialog.
I'm gonna call PGP support tomorrow to ask why do they write on their web site that the eToken are supported on Mac OS X both for PGP virtual disks and WDE encryption on MAC OS X Boot drives IF IT IS ACTUALLY NOT THE CASE.
Well, I'm ending like you : Very upset once again against PGP unaccuracy papers on their WEB SITE.
PS: Could you let me know if you have any new information about this issue please ?
Thx a lot.
Frederic JOUVIN
From France.
frederic.jouvin@gmail.com