User's Manual

A PPENDIX E – V-SMART A DMINISTRATOR

S ITEK EY M ANAGEMENT

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How do I Change the SiteKey if I Already Have a User Base of

Previously Created V-Smart Smart Cards?

Let’s say you initially set the SiteKey during installation. For example, the Primary SiteKey

was set to “cat” and the Secondary was set to “-1” because you have no previous SiteKeys

to update. You then enrolled 100 users and created 100 smart cards. The smart card key

on each of those cards would be “cat”.

Now you want to change the password because the SiteKey of “cat” was compromised

when non-authorized personnel where told the SiteKey and the installation is no longer

completely secure. Let’s say you want to change the SiteKey from “cat” to “dog”.

• In the Smart Card Security Settings window, enter “dog” as the New PRIMARY and

enter “cat” as the New SECONDARY

• Press the CHANGE SITEKEY button and you will again be presented with the

warning that you need to always remember the SiteKey.

• After pressing the ACCEPT button, you will be prompted for the CURRENT

PRIMARY SiteKey. Enter “cat” since that is the currently stored SiteKey on the V-

Smart.

• You should then be presented with a dialog indicating the SiteKey was changed.

Typically, you will need to repeat this “change” process on all V-Smarts at your

installation.

• At this point, all previously created smart cards still contain the previous key of “cat”.

However, when a smart card is presented to the V-Smart it will follow the following

steps:

1. When a card is presented and the V-Smart tries to read the data from the card,

the V-Smart will check the key currently used by the Smart Card. Since the

key on the card is “cat” and the V-Smart Primary key is now “dog”, this key

check will fail.