Keysec Reader & Token

Characteristics of the Keysec USB Token

A Smartkey is a hardware key for USB or parallel port. Each Smartkey has an IDCODE, i.e. an identification code, which is not univocal. This means that several Smartkeys with the same IDCODE can exist: as we will see later, this is especially important for KeySec. Each Smartkey, when produced, is given a serial number, which is unique for each physical key. Thus, a Smartkey has an internal memory with a certain size.

Smartkey is available in different models: the most indicated to be used with KeySec are the FX model, the PR model, the EP model and SP model. These models basically differ from other for the quantity of data that they can store: the FX model not equipped with memory, PR and EP models have a 64-Byte memory, while the SP model has a 416-Byte internal memory. Eutron suggests using at least the PR model.

The last characteristics of Smartkey are label and password: all Smartkey have an alphanumeric label, which allows their identification within the connection system and a password, alphanumeric as well, which should be entered to access the key memory.
Since the FX model does not have a memory, it doesn't have a fixed password and label, while all the other models have a programmable label.