Re: [Fed-Talk] ActivIdentity USB Reader v3 and OS X?
Re: [Fed-Talk] ActivIdentity USB Reader v3 and OS X?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] ActivIdentity USB Reader v3 and OS X?
- From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 08:15:37 -0500
Levine, Jason (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
For example, what questions should I ask about the type of
PIV cards we'll be getting
Ideally, no.
> (or is a PIV card specifically one type of
> smartcard already)?
PIV is a data model, typically implemented in Java, residing on any
number of different cards.
Is it relevant exactly what type of certs are
encoded on the card
Aside from trusting the issuer PKI, not really unless you're doing
something *really* obscure.
(or again, does PIV specify the certs already)?
The cert profiles are set by the issuer within limits set by NIST and
FedPKI.
There's a hardware component (the USB reader), but there appear to be
multiple different software components as well -- how does the card type
affect the various software parts?
Shouldn't, if the PIV tokend is working. If it isn't, try OpenSC's SCA
package.
I know I'm clearly coming to this from much further down the learning
curve, but that's only because we don't yet have the smartcards/PIV
cards to use to start learning... I'd love if there were a reasonable
primer on how all the components interact.
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/piv/index.html
-- Tim
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