I heard rumblings last fall that 10.4 was supposed to have
addressed these issues. It's seems ironic to me that one of the
sectors in which people have an interest in File Vault are running
into all sorts of problems using it with another big feature Apple
advertises to Federal customers, CAC support. I am an Apple
proponent and have convinced a number of people to try Macs that
wouldn't have otherwise and in reading the feature list more then
one person was sold on the File Vault feature. I get to most people
before they turn it on but a couple have actually lost data from
trying it. If these are known issues an OS as "advanced" as OSX
should warn users of these things when attempting them so they know
the consequences.
- Brian
Brian,
There is no known issue of data loss with using FileVault. There was
an issue that was identified in 10.3.0 which was quickly addressed.
I get to most people before they turn it on but a couple have
actually lost data from trying it.
Apple encourages all customers to report issues that they
experience. If you can help identify the Bug Report Number
associated with these reports, I can be sure and research their
reports directly myself.
Smart Card Support in Tiger is a leader in the industry. There is no
other OS vendor that provides the built-in Smart Card Services, which
among other things, fully supports the US Federal Smart Cards (CAC /
PIV / FIPS-201) for Cryptographic Login, S/MIME, Secure Web Access
and Authentication for System Administration.
If these are known issues an OS as "advanced" as OSX should warn
users of these things when attempting them so they know the
consequences.
These are not exactly "issues", but rather features that have not yet
been made available. This is not a regression -- meaning this
capability never previously existed and disappeared.
I indicated that "currently", as in 10.4.0, that Smart Cards cannot
be used to unlock a FileVault protected Home Directory.
-Shawn
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Shawn Geddis
Security Consulting Engineer
Apple Computer - US Federal Government
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