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grao1983
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Query on USB passthrough and Digicert's document signing certificate

Hi,

Digicert provides a document signing certificate via a USB token. Can we use this token with a VM via the USB passthrough mode?

I referred this KB

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102229...

Just wanted to know if anybody has actually tried something like this?

Regards

Girish

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cykVM
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Since USB dongles for e.g. software protection are supported (see: VMware KB: Supported USB device models for passthrough from an ESX or ESXi host to a virtual machine) it might work for your token, too.

Just give it a try.

grao1983
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We had a non virtualized environment earlier which was used for document signing, But now the cert has expired.

Since we have moved to using VMs now, I just wanted to make sure before buying a new cert Smiley Happy

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cykVM
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From my understanding those Digicert tokens are protected (and probably encrypted) read-only USB keys/thumbdrives. So this should work, I guess.

But Digicert's webpages are VERY slow at the moment (at least for me).

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