6. OTHER FEATURES
6.1. DEAD MAN'S SWITCH OPERATION
The Dead Man's Switch is used when a threatened user wants to destroy the disk authentication keys mak-
ing the disk content impossible to recover. For example, when user is threatened by a man with a gun and
is pressured to login.
1.
Enter the login user’s username and password at the login screen.
2.
In the password field, after entering the user’s password, don’t press enter/logon! Instead, continue
by entering the Dead Man's Switch code directly following the user’s password characters.
3.
Now click the Logon button.
The PBA will destroy all the authentication keys without acknowledgment of any sort. This will make it im-
possible to access the protected drive.
6.1.1. RESETTING AN SSD AFTER USING THE DEAD MAN'S SWITCH
There is a special utility in the installer which, together with entering the factory reset code printed on the
label of the physical disk, will cryptographically erase the disk and revert the disk back to factory settings so
it can be reused. The data will remain permanently lost because the hardware encryption key used to en-
crypt/decrypt sectors on the disk will have been changed.
There is no way to recover data from this operation but the disk itself can be used again.
6.2. ADMINISTRATOR BACKDOOR
The Administrator Backdoor is intended to allow you to log in if you accidentally enable two-factor authenti-
cation without also having a user account set up for two-factor authentication.
DANGER
Because the Administrator account can be accessed in this way, DIGISTOR recommends
that you do not use this account for everyday access or share its credentials with anyone.
You should also use a proper, secure password and store it in a secure location. The se-
curity of your data depends on it!
To log in with the Administrator backdoor, follow these instructions:
1.
On the "Login" screen, type the username Administrator into the Username field.
2.
Type the Administrator account's password into Password field.
3.
Check the Settings Console checkbox.
4.
Click the Next button. The Smart Card login screen will now appear.
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