Re: [Fed-Talk] MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
Re: [Fed-Talk] MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
- From: "Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL via Fed-talk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 14:41:00 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
In my experience, OpenSC already supports Firefox and Acrobat perfectly, and is
available both as a source repo and as a binary package. In my opinion, this is
the best currently available option for smartcards (and not just CAC or PIV
tokens!) on Catalina - especially because there's a large community behind it
that provides pretty decent support. That works for all the apps with PKCS#11
capabilities, and for a large number of tokens.
Apple-native apps (Safari and Apple Mail) were migrated to CTK, so they can
access the tokens (CAC and PIV only) via "pivtoken" (standard with High Sierra,
Mojave, and Catalina).
The real problem is with those apps that still rely on CDSA API, rather than on
the new CTK - such as MS Office (AFAIK). Unfortunately, neither OpenSC (that
provides a PKCS#11 library), nor your keychain-pkcs11 (that provides a PKCS#11
library) can help with this issue. And OpenSC.tokend that addressed it up until
Mojave, won't work on Catalina.
On 10/8/19, 10:18 AM, "Fed-talk on behalf of Ken Hornstein via Fed-talk"
<fed-talk-bounces+uri=email@hidden on behalf of
email@hidden> wrote:
Everyone,
It is my understanding that MacOS X Catalina has finally killed off support
for third-party token daemons ("tokend") which make smart cards available
via the older Keychain APIs.
I tested out my keychain-pkcs11 plugin, and it worked fine on Catalina
with Firefox (for web browsing) and Adobe Acrobat (for document
signing). Now obviously I am biased because I wrote keychain-pkcs11,
but as far as I know currently it is the only option for CAC/smartcard
support for those two applications on Catalina. If there are other
options to make these applications work on Catalina I would love to hear
about them. And if anyone has problems with keychain-pkcs11 I would
be interested in hearing about them.
--Ken
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