RE: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support for third party OS X Applications...
RE: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support for third party OS X Applications...
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support for third party OS X Applications...
- From: "Mueller, David S CIV SSC San Diego, 2872" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:47:24 -0700
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support for third party OS X Applications...
I use the CoolKey package from the CoolKey site:
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/BuildCoolKey#Pre_Built_Binary
The following Terminal commands can be used to install it; I assume
you've already used cd to change to the directory that the CoolKey
package was downloaded to:
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/include
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
$ unzip mac-coolkey-1.1.0.zip
$ cd usr/local/CoolKey
$ sudo cp -r lib/* /usr/local/lib/
$ sudo cp -r include/* /usr/local/include/
$ sudo cp -r bin/* /usr/local/bin/
Once that is done, the path to Coolkey to use in Firefox and Adobe
Reader is:
/usr/local/lib/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.dylib
Hope this helps,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radleigh [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:07 PM
To: Timothy J. Miller
Cc: Mueller, David S CIV SSC San Diego, 2872; Apple FED-TALK
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support
for third party OS X Applications...
Tried the three R's of Windows: Refresh (Retry), Reboot, Reinstall
(Recompile). No luck. I think my Mac called my bluff and just laughed
at me (I even tried the Voodoo doll I brought back from New Orleans).
Perhaps you can send me the CoolKey package you are using with the,
configuration and installation steps that you followed, so I can see if
I can get that working on my system.
However, on a broader note, for other Mac users who will require similar
functionality, something more user friendly (does waving dead chickens
over the CPU fall into this category?) and (semi) supported really needs
to be developed. Quirks like these really gives IT management the ammo
they need to prevent the Mac from infiltrating the Windows baseline at
many organizations.
--
Mark Radleigh
MHPCC - AFRL/RDSM
email@hidden
> From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:45:16 -0500
> To: Mark Radleigh <email@hidden>
> Cc: "Mueller, David S CIV SSC San Diego, 2872"
> <email@hidden>, Apple FED-TALK <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Smart Cards (CAC) and PKCS#11 library support
> for third party OS X Applications...
>
> Mark Radleigh wrote:
>> I downloaded Adobe Reader 9 and tried it out with the latest
>> pre-built CoolKey kit with no success. While Acrobat 9 (as with 8)
>> did recognize the library, I could not get it to see my CAC (even
>> after importing *all* the DoD CAs and setting their trust levels).
>> Apparently, you were able to successfully threaten your Mac into
>> submission (I guess the hammer I had sitting on my desk next to my
>> Mac didn't work).
>
> Again, works for me (just tried it with Adobe 9). Did you click
> "refresh"?
>
> I've never found the mere presence of tools to be sufficiently
> threatening. Blood-curdling descriptions of disassembly and sale as
> spare parts sometimes works.
>
> You could just go old-school and wave a dead chicken over the CPU.
>
> -- Tim
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