Re: [Fed-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
Re: [Fed-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
- From: "Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL via Fed-talk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 15:28:54 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: MacOS X Catalina & CAC support
Allen,
Thank you - it's very interesting.
Could you explain
(a) how does one *completely* disable CTK?
(b) once CTK is disabled - were you able to run the currently-released
OpenSC.tokend?
Thanks again!
On 10/8/19, 11:17 AM, "Fed-talk on behalf of Golbig, Allen M.
(GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.] via Fed-talk"
<fed-talk-bounces+uri=email@hidden on behalf of
email@hidden> wrote:
Outlook supports CTK currently in Microsoft's Insider Slow/Fast channels.
If no other issues pop up before next week, I expect it to be in 16.30.
TokenD is disabled by default in macOS 10.15. It can be re-enabled but in
my testing I found that both OpenSC and ActivClient are broken unless you
completely disable CTK.
Allen
On 10/8/19, 10:41 AM, "Fed-talk on behalf of Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
via Fed-talk" <fed-talk-bounces+allen.m.golbig=email@hidden on
behalf of email@hidden> wrote:
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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