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Synaptics SentryPoint Security, Natural ID Fingerprint Sensors Selected for New Acer Switch 5

Acer Switch 5 features industry-leading SecureLink end-to-end encryption.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Synaptics Incorporated announced that Acer has selected Synaptics Natural ID fingerprint sensors backed by highly-secure SentryPoint technology for its popular Switch 5 PCs. The Acer Switch 5 is one of the industry’s most secure PCs due to the implementation of Synaptics’ SecureLink technology – entailing fully-encrypted end-to-end biometric authentication from the sensor to the host processor. SecureLink combines industry-standard TLS (1.2) secure communication with AES-256 encryption.   The ...

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