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  • 1.  Query on USB passthrough and Digicert's document signing certificate

    Posted Mar 23, 2015 08:28 PM

    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=1022290

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

    Regards

    Girish



  • 2.  RE: Query on USB passthrough and Digicert's document signing certificate

    Posted Mar 23, 2015 08:39 PM

    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.



  • 3.  RE: Query on USB passthrough and Digicert's document signing certificate

    Posted Mar 23, 2015 08:42 PM

    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 :smileyhappy:



  • 4.  RE: Query on USB passthrough and Digicert's document signing certificate

    Posted Mar 23, 2015 09:13 PM

    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).