If you are deploying RSA Soft Tokens to iPhone users you will need to use the RSA Token Converter to convert the RSA Seedfile to a url that the iPhone can use to import the seedfile into the iPhone RSA Token app. RSA provides a Token Converter that you can use to convert the seedfile to a text file containing a weird url that you would email to your iPhone user. Outlook however mangles the url and creates a headache for those deploying RSA iPhone Tokens. I found an offline script that converts the text file to an html file that you can then email to your user on their iPhone. They then open the html file and click the link which imports the token. The original script was created by:
Designed by Geoff Todd
At http://www.iphonedownloadworld.com
Thanks to Geoff Todd for putting that out.
I found however that my own use required some modification to the original script. I tweaked it a bit and figured i’d post it in case it helps anyone else.
My version of their script makes the following changes.
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It allows you to store the seedfiles in a remote location, it reaches into the central location and doesn’t require you store the seedfile in the same directory as the converter.
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It creates individualized text and html files based on the name of the seedfile processed by the script.
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It deposits the text and html files in the directory that the script runs in and allows you to retain the various files vs overwriting the same file over and over.
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It also checks to see if a previous file already exists and deletes it prior to creating new text and html files. This ensures you are always dealing with fresh files.
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It also tells you step by step what the script did in case you were curious.
If sending the HTML file to someone using Goodlink on the iPhone you may find the link in the HTML file is not clickable. Simply sent them the .txt file or cut and past the line from the .txt file into the body of the email. Your user can then cut and paste that into a browser to import the token. The link to the RSA Token HTML converter script is shown below.
htmlconverter