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Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple Smart Card update 1.2 (UNCLASSIFIED)



Elmar,
I would also go back to your technical support group (hopefully you aren't your only technical support group) and ask to see the image used to build your Mac. With all the "secure" images being built by an assortment of people, it wouldn't surprise me if someone removed these drivers, thinking they were doing the right thing. If the drivers aren't there, then I'd make a suggestion to the techs to recreate the image. To confirm Shawn's statement, I checked my install of 10.5.5 and the driver is there and I've never used any smart cards.



On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Shawn A. Geddis wrote:

Elmar,

The driver ( SCR24XHndlr.bundle ) has been part of the standard OS install from the beginning. Since it hasn't changed in quite sometime, it would not appear in any of the software updates.

I'll forward the bundle to you directly under separate cover, but wanted to help folks to know the above info.

- Shawn
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Shawn Geddis    Security Consulting Engineer    Apple Enterprise

On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Schmeisser, Elmar (Civ, ARL/ARO) wrote:
Ah ha! Looking in that folder shows me that I do NOT have that file (SCR24XHndlr.bundle). Where do I get it?

- Elmar

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Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple Smart Card update 1.2 (UNCLASSIFIED)

On Oct 20, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Schmeisser, Elmar (Civ, ARL/ARO) wrote:
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Colleagues:
...
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/BuildCoolKey#Pre_Built_Binary
...
https://sites.google.com/a/compsolve.net/mac-cac/

All this stuff refers only to INTEL machines and USB readers. Is there any data whatsoever on PCMCIA readers and PPC MACs e.g. a G4? I have 10.5.5 and patch 1.2 installed, and nothing works -

Elmar T. Schmeisser, PhD


There appears to be some confusion as to what the SCSU v1.2 fixes,
what Reader Drivers are pre-installed and what services you are
actually using.

1) The SCSU v1.2 provides updates to the Smart Card Services to fix
problems with a combination of the following:
CCID Class Driver
Negotiating protocol with newer cards (T=1) (for CAC & PIV cards)
minor improvements to the PIV tokend (Additional updates still
coming)


2) Just about all PCMCIA Readers are not CCID Compliant and require
their own drivers
	Apple pre-installs drivers support ( /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/
drivers/ ) for the following PCMCIA Readers:

		CRYPTOCard 	PC-1			(CC-PC-Card.bundle)
		SCM 			SCR 24X		(SCR24XHndlr.bundle)
		OMNIKey		CardMan 4040 	(ifdok_cm4040_macos-2.0.0.bundle)

If your PCMCIA Reader is none of the above, you would need to acquire
a driver from the vendor or use one already
supported as noted above.


3) If you are attempting to use "CoolKey" that means that you are
wanting/needing to use a PKCS#11 based application (Mozilla, Firefox,
Thunderbird, etc.). If this is the case, then you will also need to
configure the application(s) to leverage the Smart Card (automatically
taken care of with OS X Security Native Applications).



- Shawn
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 >Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple Smart Card update 1.2 (UNCLASSIFIED) (From: "Shawn A. Geddis" <email@hidden>)



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