Friday, September 9, 2011

RSA Software Token on your Android Phone

As I've mentioned recently I started a new job.  For remote access you use an RSA key to access the systems.  I installed the RSA Android app (see link below) and had my SDTID file emailed to my phone.  But......I couldn't import it!  After some quick searching I found that you have to convert this XML file to a text string (it begins with http://127.0.0.1/securid...) and import that.  The RSA app on your Android phone doesn't support importing the SDTID file.

To get the importer from RSA, you can go to http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3831 and register to download it.  I did, converted my file, and was able to do all the remote access I wanted.  Good luck!

Get the RSA Android app from the Android Market:

 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

What are the steps to convert xml file in text file?

Thanks.
Arthur

David Scott said...

You have to download the XML Importer from http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3831 -- but I don't believe that with the newer versions of the Android code you have to do this. I believe it will import the SDTID file directly now.