Briefly: The popular YubiKey OTP authentication device now can be used in Rohos Logon Key and Rohos Disk an access Key for Windows/Mac and security token for the personal encrypted disk.

Security advantages with Yubikey:

Windows logon with YubiKey

Allows to access Windows and Mac in a secure way by Yubikey replacing the regular password based  login. All that the user should do is to insert YubiKey into the USB port and press it.

Rohos Logon Key is the only program that full-featuredly works with any Windows, Mac OS X and supports Windows remote desktop authentication by using YubiKey.

Advantages of using YubiKey in Rohos Logon:

Full support of Windows XP, Vista and Windows Seven including: remote desktop access and automatic password renewal, works  also under Windows Active Directory.

Completely replaces password based login with Yubikey.

Setting-up YubiKey in Rohos Logon Key:

• First you have to install Rohos Logon Key
• In the main window open “Options” and choose YubiKey as USB Key device type for Rohos:

• In this dialog choose YubiKey in USB Key device type list.
• After you choosed Yubikey, re-open this dialog box and click Settings… link under ‘USB Key type’ list box, to setup OTP validation method. By default Rohos does not validate OTP.

Go back to main Rohos window and click “Set up USB Key “:

After you enter your current user password > Click OK and Rohos will ask you to touch YubiKey. Now restart Windows into order to apply.

For non-English users it’s important to know that during generating and typing YubiKey’s OTP the current system language is used. So make sure that during the Rohos setup process and upon login the language that is used, e.g. Russian, German, Spanish, etc. remains the same. Otherwise the program displays the error: “The given USB key has not been configured for this computer”.

Yubikey security in Rohos:

Rohos Logon and Rohos disk are able to work with any type of YubiKey - with Static or dynamic OTP mode.

• During USB Key setup the program is bound to YubiKey IDs (first 12 chars).
• OTP validation is supported.
• Rohos Logon stores your Windows login (user name and password) in encrypted form in Windows registry
• During accepting a string from YubiKey Rohos allows only 4 sec to enter it, or it will deny it thinking that user enters it manually (Copy/Paste disabled also)
• The program allows to setup 2 and more YubiKeys for login into the same PC
• If you forget or lose YubiKey you can use Emergency Login

Secure Windows Remote Desktop authentication

Rohos supports YubiKey OTP security at 100% and offers a flexible hardware based authentication for Windows Remote Desktop:

• Supports both OTP verifications methonds: local - by encryption OTP ( AES key should be provided) and remote - by validating OTP on the any Yubikey enabled web site (according to Yubico validation API).
• Remote Desktop Logon.

Rohos Logon Key for YubiKey integration guide - Step-by-step guide on how to set up Windows remote desktop logon with YubiKey.

Download Rohos Logon Key.

System requirements:

In order to run Rohos Logon properly the requirements are the following:

Knowledge Base

Videos:

+ Windows login with Yubikey
+ Windows Remote Desktop login with Yubikey
+ Rohos Disk Encryption + Yubikey

Library:

Rohos Logon Key for YubiKey integration guide - Step-by-step guide on how to set up Windows remote desktop logon with YubiKey.

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