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: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:54:31 -0500
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] ActivIdentity USB Reader v3 and OS X?
Have you actually used the cert / private key for a cryptographic operation?
You can "see" the certs, but to really test things you need to do something
like sign an e-mail.
Paul Nelson
Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
> From: Jason Levine <email@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:40:19 -0400
> To: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>, Paul Kwan <email@hidden>,
> "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>, "Nichols, Jared"
> <email@hidden>, Apple Fed Talk <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] ActivIdentity USB Reader v3 and OS X?
>
> OK, now I'm thoroughly confused, because my further investigation into the
> PIV cards and technology on the Mac has unearthed a tech here who is running
> OS X 10.5 and is able to read 2048-bit certs off of his demo PIV card with a
> standard SCR card reader and *NO* replacement PIV tokend. EVERYTHING I've
> read so far has told me that the OS X PIV tokend is hard-coded to only be
> able to handle 1024-bit PIV auth certs... what am I missing here?
>
> As always, thanks for any insight...
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