Alcor Micro Smart Card Driver
Launch single chip PC/SC USB Smart Card reader controller for WebBank, Online deal, Digital Signature, Credit Card Payment, and Safety exchange verification applications. 2000/02 Launch USB keyboard HUB controller with 2 downstream ports and 8 modules. 1999/11 Alcor Micro, Corp. Founded in Taipei.
I installed an old Alcor Micro USB 2.0 card reader on my Windows 7 Enterprise PC. The USB card reader has four slots for four different memory sticks. The one that I'm trying to read is a 4GB SanDisk.
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I have down loaded the latest driver fromMicrosoft. My PC shows that the driver installed successfully and is available for use.
But, when I insert a SanDisk into the card reader, the device just hangs. I'm not able to read any information on the SanDisk. I've tried uninstalling the device andthen let Windows reinstall the device and it still doesn't work.I've scanned my PC and my windows is up to date. I've also tried updating the driver and Windows reports that I have the latest driver for the card reader.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. Was it working fine before?2.
Did you make any changes to the computer before the issue occurred?I would suggest you to try the steps provided below and check if it helps.Method 1:Try to connect the card reader in any other port and check if it works.Method 2:Run the “Fix it” tool from the link given below. It will automatically diagnose and repairs problems with hardware devices not detected or not working on your computer.Method 3:Tips for solving problems with USB devices:This link is for Vista but it also applies for Windows 7.
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Common Access Card is a smart card issued by the US Department of Defence. The latest CACs - perhaps all current CACs - conform to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV; FIPS 201) standard.There are other smart cards used in various systems. For example, you can use most built in smart card readers with a PGP card if you choose to carry PGP credentials in that format.I carry my personal certificate for S/MIME e-mail and my PGP credentials in a Yubikey NEO; it is much more convenient for me to use a USB device rather than require smart card readers on all the systems I use. David, your reply is extremly helpful and relevant (along with your reply to my other post).I am not a true IT person, but manage the computers for a small company(12) and have a small number working remote over VPN. I am looking for a physical device that I can use that will basicly make the computer useless unless connected.
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Unfortunaly I fear thier loss by the user.I have spent a few minutes reading up on the terms in your reply and have seen the YupiKey in the past. Just got overwhelmed. Maybe 2 questions please.Is the PC useable without the key or is the key just storing passwords and credentials?Does this have anything to do with encrypting the device? You can do so many different things with a YubiKey.My applications for these devices are all about securing trusted credentials used once the system is up and running. However, you can use the smart card functionality of all the current YubiKeys other than the U2F only key (that's the 4 series, NEO and the FIPS range) to secure all manner of services and applications including VPN applications.
You can also login to Windows via smart card if you have the right back-end infrastructure.If you have a Windows Server, this has all the software you need to set up a local certificate authority and authentication infrastructure for certificate authentication of users (including authentication of other services using RADIUS - notably including login to Wi-Fi networks). However, this is a fairly complex thing to do correctly, especially when it comes to securing the root certificate of the certificate authority and ensuring the purposes of your certificate authority are appropriately constrained so as not to introduce security risks.If you do not already have a Windows domain to which all devices authenticate by password, there are further steps to go through, including upgrading all devices with Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro (domain join is unavailable in the Home version of Windows). If you want to be secure, you should be using Windows 10 Pro with BitLocker or another disk encryption solution in any event.There are ways to do the server end of all this without a Windows Server, but these typically involve the use of open source software that is not easy to configure correctly, such as FreeRADIUS and Samba.Creating user certificates on YubiKeys is definitely a good move as part of introducing certificate based authentication. The PIN that protects the certificate is kept on a secure element; after so many incorrect PIN entries, the certificate is put beyond use and a new one needs to be issued.I wish it was as simple as buy a bunch of YubiKeys and hand them out. If you want an overview of what is involved, read, though be aware that this assumes you already have - or know how to set up - a Windows Active Directory domain. If it was me, I'd move to Windows Server 2016 (or whatever version is current come the Spring) and Windows 10 Pro on one client computer, then buy a couple of YubiKeys and experiment with certificate based authentication.If you get all this right, it will solve a lot of headaches - though don't forget to make some provision for scenarios when the Windows Server is unavailable. One possibility is to use Azure and ADFS to give you a level of redundancy in the cloud; there are undoubtedly other approaches.