Common Access Cards, or CACs/CAC cards, are only assigned to
military, civilian, and contractor members of the US Department of
Defense and other related agencies.
The only way to "get" a CAC, and to get the associated DoD PKI
certificate, is to be affiliated with the Department of Defense.
If you have no current or contractor affiliation with DoD, you can't
get a CAC or DoD cert. You might be wanting a generic Smart Card,
with a cert. There are some tools out there that will let you use
various smart cards and readers with Mac OS X: http://www.opensc-
project.org/sca/
- Dave
On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Brad Cox, Ph.D. wrote:
I need a CAC card (or equivalent; I've been told an ECA soft cert
might do) to support consulting work with govt agencies (see http://
giglite.org) that works on my Macs (G4 Desktop and MacBook Pro).
I'm confused as to exactly what I need, where to get them, and what
this will cost. In particular:
1) Do I need a card or will a soft cert do? How do the results
differ? Can I sign email with a soft cert? Can I access AKO? Other
govt websites like eGov, etc? I'm familiar with ECA certs as of
about 2 years ago with DISA. But they were tightening their policy
even then so that soft certs would no longer do. Mine expired
around then.
2) If I do need a card, where do I get one that works for Macs? I
know about the NPGS "CAC on a Mac" paper.
3) Do soft certs work with cards?
4) Any issues sharing a card/softCert between desktop and laptop?
5) Where should I apply for the certs? Where should I buy the card?
Sorry if this is a FAQ. Too many moving parts, never addressed as a
whole by any reference I've found. Hoping someone here can help.
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