Microsoft Tuesday released the next beta of its Certificate Lifecycle Manager, a key piece of security infrastructure that supports deployments of two-factor authentication, such as smart cards.

Microsoft says the October 2025 Windows security updates are causing smart card authentication and certificate issues due to a change designed to strengthen the Windows Cryptographic Services. This ...

Microsoft accidentally broke several things in the October 2025 Windows Update, but smart card authentication was not one of them. That was intentionally broken, and the temporary workaround requires ...