Acer 6460 Series, 6410 Series manual Migrating Keys to other Systems, Migration Basics

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Installation and Administration of Enhanced Authentication

Authentication devices are provided by separately installable software plug-ins. The Security Platform Solution Software detects installed authentication devices automatically.

The configuration of authentication devices is user-specific, i.e. different Security Platform Users can use different authentication devices. Usage of Enhanced Authentication can be controlled by policies.

Migrating Keys to other Systems

Once a system user is set up as an Acer Security Platform User, there may arise the requirement to provide the user-specific security environment not only on the computer where the setup happened, but also on other computers the user has access to.

Migration Basics

The Acer Security Platform offers the possibility to maintain and administrate this situation by offering a migration path for the user-specific secret. The basic idea of this technology is the strict separation of the administrative and operational role of migration.

The migration operation is performed using the Acer Security Platform Migration Wizard.

•Migration to a computer without existing user keys and certificates:

The migration process will install new user keys and certificates on the machine you are migrating to.

You will need to configure Security Platform Features for use with these new keys and certificates.

•Migration to a computer with existing user keys and certificates (different Basic User Key):

The migration process will invalidate your existing Security Platform keys and certificates installed on the machine you are migrating to. Your encrypted data may be lost as a result of this operation. Please decrypt your encrypted data before proceeding with migration or contact your system administrator for data recovery procedure.

•Migration to a computer with existing user keys and certificates (same Basic User Key):

If the destination computer already uses the same Basic User Key as the source computer, then the migration process will merge your user keys and certificates. After migration, the keys and certificates from the migration archive will be active. Old keys and certificates will be kept. This way you will not lose any encrypted data.