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Securing your Windows computer with syskey

At an event a few weeks back, Steve Lamb mentioned using the syskey utility to secure a Windows system. Even though it’s a standard Windows utility, I’d never heard of it before and Steve has now written about syskey on his blog, along with a follow up post on storing the keys on a USB token (think of it as a kind of ignition key for a Windows computer).

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Pingback from Mark’s (we)Blog » Putting PKI into practice
Time: Friday 9 March 2007, 14:50

[…] There are a number of levels of file access security, from BIOS passwords (problematic to manage); syskey mode 3 (useful for protecting access to notebook PCs - a system restore disk will be required for […]

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Comment from Louiev
Time: Wednesday 14 May 2008, 17:39

Steve lamb ur great.. thanks for posting it… syskey works on USB

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