Compaq 6531s HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines
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HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines V1.0 November 2009 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction...2 2. Supported Platforms 2 3. Overview of Design 3 4. Supported Keyboard Layouts in Preboot and Drive Encryption 3 5. HP ProtectTools Security Manager Filter Logic 6 6. How Preboot BIOS - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 2
German using the International US keyboard layout etc. However, at the Preboot Security level and the HP Drive Encryption level, the input localization support is limited. The purpose of this whitepaper is to help user understand the limitations and also to set the proper Windows password to avoid - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 3
HP ProtectTools password filter. The BIOS Preboot and Drive Encryption each preloads tables of key mapping from Scan Code to Unicode based on the supported keyboard layout. (see table Figure ‐1 below). When the user enters the password before OS starts, the BIOS or the Drive Encryption software will - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 4
HP Keyboards Arabic (101) Belgian (Comma) Canadian French (Legacy) Canadian French Chinese Bopomofo Chinese ChaJei Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latin American Common Name in Microsoft Windows Vista Code (hex) - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 5
HP Keyboards Norwegian Polish (Programmers) Polish (214) Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian) Romanian Slovakian Slovenian Spanish Spanish (International) Swedish Swiss Thai (Kedmanee) Turkish F Turkish Q UK US US (International) Common Name in Microsoft Windows Vista Norwegian Polish (Programmers) - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 6
5. HP ProtectTools Security Manager Filter Logic In order to prevent a lock out situation, the first level of defense is implemented by the HP ProtectTools Security Manager. It installs a password filter to reject those Windows passwords that may possibly cause a lock out in Preboot BIOS or Drive - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 7
Preboot and HP Drive Encryption contain the keyboard mappings for all the supported keyboards listed above. When a user is setting up Preboot Security with may look very similar to others on some keyboards. If experiencing trouble using this feature, so please look at all of the characters before - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 8
Windows Vista", shown in Figure 1. The reason for this is that Windows maps some IMEs to a keyboard layout. In such cases, the IME would be supported by HP ProtectTools, because the underlying keyboard layout definition, designated by the "Code (hex) column in Figure 1, is what matters. 2 This is an - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 9
) and then the user changes the password using a different but also supported keyboard layout - e.g. Latin American (080A), the password change will work team and maybe fixed in the later release. A simple solution to this problem is to remove the user in question from HP ProtectTools by running the - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 10
Characters Not Supported Arabic Windows BIOS The keys The keys generate two in windows BIOS with cap locks is in bios Drive Encryption with cap locks is in FVE Spanish 40a is not supported US Int'l Windows The keys are rejected on the top row The å, ®, þ keys are rejected on the - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 11
Czech Windows The ğ key is rejected The į key is rejected The ų key is rejected The ė ı ż keys are rejected The keys are rejected Slovakian Windows The ż key rejected BIOS The š, ś, ş keys is rejected when typed, but accepted with the soft keyboard The ţ dead key is generating two - Compaq 6531s | HP Business Notebook Password Localization Guidelines - Page 12
for the following reasons: 1. User is using an IME keyboard which is not supported. This is a common issue with double‐byte languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should
HP Business Notebook
Password Localization
Guidelines
V1.0
November 2009
Table of Contents:
1.
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………..2
2.
Supported Platforms………………………………………………………………………………...2
3.
Overview of Design……………………………………………………………………………
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3
4.
Supported Keyboard Layouts in Preboot and Drive Encryption…………………………………3
5.
HP ProtectTools Security Manager Filter Logic……………………………………………….……6
6.
How Preboot BIOS Implements the Password Filter And Handles Dead Keys……………….…7
7.
Exceptions………………………………………………………………………………………….…8
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What to do when a password is rejected…………………………………………………...……12