Questions tagged [smartcard]
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SCardEstablishContext: Service not available
I installed the following packages:
libusb-dev
libusb++-0.1-4c2
libccid
pcscd
libpcsclite1
libpcsclite-dev
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libpcsc-perl
pcsc-tools
But when I send the pcsc_scan command I ...
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How to logon to Windows with a SmartCard
How can I configure Windows, when I am at the Logon Screen I see the option to logon using a SmartCard? How can I associate the SmartCard with a local user account which is not a member of a domain?
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Smart Card errors
I have a CAC smart card, and a SCM Microsystems SCR3310 USB card Reader. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1.
This setup used to work just fine. When I would insert my CAC, my certificates would ...
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Access host's smart card reader via Remote Desktop Connection
I have a Windows 7 machine that has a smart card reader. I have an application running on that machine that can successfully read the contents of the card.
I have another Windows 7 machine that I use ...
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Use EMV-enabled Credit Card (chip card) for Windows Smart Card log-in?
I have a USB Smart Card Reader and a Credit Card with Smart Chip (EMV) on it. So I was wondering if I can associate this card to my Windows Administrator profile (local user account) and use it as a ...
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Linux: Sign PDF using a certificate stored in a smart card with a time-stamped signature [closed]
In Linux, I am looking for a way to sign a PDF file using a certificate stored in a smart card similar to the feature offered by adobe acrobat reader (Tools->Certificates->Digitally Sign). The latter ...
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Outlook 2016 prompting for Smart Card instead of Credentials
My Outlook 2016 (on Windows 10) has always been annoying, prompting me for Domain Credentials for a synced calendar (I think, or some other reason) at least 5 times a day, or whenever I click "Send/...
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How to use the certificates on a smart card without the physical card?
I recently extracted the certificates from my smart card and imported them into Firefox.
However, when I tried logging in to several smart-card-enabled websites, I received an error message (Error ...
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What is an NFC SIM card and what is the different with regular SIMs? [closed]
If a phone has NFC capabilities, do you need an NFC SIM card to use NFC?
Is NFC a technology of the phone or of the SIM card? Or is the NFC SIM card just 'more secure' than a regular SIM Card and if ...
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Why does Windows Security stop prompting for my smart card credentials (the "more options" is not showing)?
I'm currently in a Windows 10 domain environment that uses smart card authentication. We are using ActivClient 7.1.0.213 for reading the smart cards. I use a user smart card to login as a user (which ...
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Smartcard OpenSSH and PuTTY SSH
I am attempting to ssh onto a CentOS 7.5 machine (192.168.1.5) via smart card technology.
Now I can SSH using the master slot's x509 certificate with the matching private key to accomplish this, but ...
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Smartcards for storing gpg/ssh keys (Linux) - what do I need?
I'm interested in storing my SSH keys and gpg keys on a smartcard for added security. However, I'm a bit uncertain on a few points, which are as follows:
How many keys can I get on a card? I assume ...
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How can I create a "Virtual Smart Card" on my TPM without joining my Windows computer to a Domain?
I want to store a OpenVPN client certificates on our laptops secured by my TPM, so that the certificate can't be stolen/extracted from the laptop even with admin rights.
Microsoft offeres "...
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GnuPG keeps looking for my dead smart card
My smart card died (physically). I made offline backups of my keys, and those are successfully imported back into GnuPG. However, it keeps asking for the key whenever I try to decrypt using the keys. ...
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Automatically remove certificate from certificate store
Windows 7 certificate store's default behavior includes storing all public keys you use from smartcards. This is sometimes undesirable as if some machine needs to use a lot of smartcards, the "Please ...
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Windows: how to disable scanning of Smart Cards
Under Windows (at least, 8 and 10), when a Smart Card is inserted in a PC/SC Smart Card reader, something in the OS typically issues Select commands (C-APDUs starting in 00 A4) to the Smart Card, as ...
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Error with GPG Smartcard fetching public subkey
I'm trying to setup an OpenPGP smartcard using a YubiKey.
It's a YubiKey 4, so in theory should accept a 4096 bit secret key, but I'm using 2048 bit subkeys.
I have a master key (set for cert only), ...
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How do I stop Windows from flooding smartcard with APDUs
Whenever I put a smartcard in/on my smartcard reader Windows (7 Prof, x64) immediately starts flooding it with APDUs possibly trying to identify the type of the card (SELECT and READ_DATA commands).
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How to reimport gpg key replaced by stub
I've got a subkey which was moved to a card. This resulted in replacing it with a stub in the local keychain. This means every time I try to use that subkey, I get:
gpg: public key decryption failed: ...
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Set up smart card authentication home network
At this moment I am wondering what it would require in both hardware and configuration to setup my home network with smart card authentication (combined with password or pincode)
This network ...
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How to reuse drivers downloaded through Windows Update?
I'm looking for a way to isolate a smart card driver that is downloaded through Windows Update when I put it the first time on an RFID reader.
The idea is then to install that driver on multiple ...
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Can I make a Smart Card using a flash drive?
I want to require a user to plug in a flash drive before letting them authenticate with his/her password.
Are there any solutions that work well for laptops, preferably Macs?
I'm not looking for a ...
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Smart Card login from non-domain computer
I use a standalone laptop at a large client who smart cards. I usually just plug-in my laptop and enter the credentials they provided to get access to their e-mail and internal websites.
There is ...
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Can I make remote Windows 7 see Smart Card Reader when connecting via Remote Desktop?
I have two machines:
Machine A is running Windows 7
Machine B is running Mac OS X 10.6.4
Machine A has VPN software installed and must connect to the VPN using Smart Card Authentication. The Smart ...
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Smart card reader ACR 38U-CCID not recognizing blank SLE4442 smart card
I'm attempting to use the OpenSC version 0.18.0 library on my Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.5 to communicate with an ACR38U-I1 reader, connected via USB.
Inserting a brand new SLE4428 smart card into the ...
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How to retrieve RSA private key from wrapped key blob?
I have generated a pair of RSA keys on a smart card with OpenSC tools and retrieved it as wrapped key blob encrypted with DKEK key:
sc-hsm-tool --create-dkek-share dkek/dkek-share-1.pbe
sc-hsm-tool --...
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Smart Card to Protect RAID Storage
I currently have a simple RAID setup, external RAID enclosure, with 2 hard drives, A mirroring B. All data on A is encrpyted using Blowfish (TrueCrypt). Although I would like to know if its possible ...
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Smart card driven membership and door entry system
I'm looking at putting in a smart card driven system at my local sports club (which doesn't have oodles of money), and since they're willing to pay for hardware, and I'm willing to do the technical ...
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Can YubiKey PIV and FIDO U2F be used together?
I setup my YubiKey for PIV authentication to my computer, and FIDO U2F for web app authentication. My issue is, whenever something requests FIDO access from my YubiKey, it disconnects the smart card. ...
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Inspecting digital signature in PDF file
I have a PDF that was signed with a certificate from a PKCS#11 module (a Belgian identity card reader, also known as eID) using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. How can I inspect the signature that's attached ...
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Enable USB smartcard inside VMware
I am running Windows 7 inside VMWare Player on a Linux host. I want to use a USB smart card reader but it is not working. The client app reports: "No Card Detected", but it appears to recognize that ...
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What do I need to use Smart card for windows login (no domain, just regular single local machine)
I have a reader from ACS "ACR83" and a brand new card from the same place ACO3-32 as a development kit and I need to use both of them to login into my laptop locally
I am not a part of domain, I am ...
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How to import OpenPGP Card / YubiKey backup encryption key
When I generate a new OpenPGP key on a YubiKey, it gives me the option to save a copy of the encryption key as a backup like so:
$ gpg --edit-card
Reader ...........: Yubico Yubikey NEO U2F CCID 00 ...
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Firefox shows multiple PIN prompts for smartcard using OpenSC
I installed OpenSC 0.18 and added the PKCS11 DLL as a security device provider in Firefox 61. I can "unlock" my smart card from the Security Devices dialog, and get prompted for the PIN as expected. ...
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Qualified S/MIME signature with Thunderbird
Is it possible to send S/MIME digitally signed email with Mozilla Thunderbird using qualified digital signing smart card? How?
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can't access smart card attached to remote computer via RDP [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Access host’s smart card reader via Remote Desktop Connection
I work in a location where im not allowed to have any electronic devices, I am however allowed RDP access and i ...
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gpg2 --edit-key addphoto / keytocard without password prompt
I am trying export subkeys to card for a keyring without any keyboard interaction using the command keytocard. This type of command is the same as addphoto as it requires to edit the keyring with --...
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File structure inside a smartcard
I bought a smart card that it support java.
How I can understand the file structure inside it?
I mean did all cards have Master File , Dedicated Files and Elementary Files inside? or some card have ...
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RDP client does not consider smart card as valid for authentication
I have:
A Windows 7 client machine. I am not Administrator for that machine.
A Windows 2008R2 server, on which I want to open a session using Remote Desktop.
A Remote Desktop Gateway, also running ...
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Why can't I add an elliptic curve certificate (smartcard, Yubikey, piv) as protector to a BitLocker protected partition?
Yubikey as SmartCard
I have been using a SmartCard (Yubikey 4, PIV interface) with RSA certificate to unlock BitLocker protected drives. The certificates are self-signed and generated by the Encrypted ...
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Prevent device from being ejected (Windows 10 Pro)
I have a fixed device (5.25 device), a smartcard reader, that is ejectable and appears in "safe removal".
The problem is that if I misclick this smartcard reader while is about to eject a USB memory, ...
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3DES_CMAC encryption using online tools or OpenSSL
I have a smart card that claims that its mutual authentication is based on 3DES_CMAC algorithm.
In the first step, the user sends a random number to the card and the card calculate the encrypted ...
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Can I read a smartcard in a virtual machine?
My employer requires a smartcard to login to their web-based remote working platform. I want to access this platform by using a Remote Desktop Connection on to my Windows 7 Virtual Machine, with the ...
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Windows 8 Login configuration
I have a requirement where I use a smart card to login in Windows 8.
(In windows-7, as was mentioned in SO answers, I know that I can configure smart-card login.)
Or where do I see the login-...
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How could I turn a floppy disk into a smartcard?
I'm a fan of old technology such as the floppy diskette and I would like to find a 21st century use for it.
So my question is; with the smartcard technology we have to day, such as Charismathics and ...
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Create virtual smart card from physical card
Would it be possible to "clone" a physical smart card into a virtual smart card, by using tpmvscmgr.exe utility?
I have several users in our organization that should use the same certificates ...
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Cannot see hardware security token on my Windows PC
I have a SafeNet Token JC device that provides a certificate when I am connecting to a VPN using CheckPoint VPN Client.
I'm facing an issue that CheckPoint cannot see that device. I have Windows 10 ...
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GPG smartcards handling 4096-bit keys
are there smartcards that handle 4096-bit keys supported both by GPG and Enigmail (PAM would be additional benefit)? Preferably on USB.
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SmartCard reader
I have a Dell D620 which has a builtin smart card reader.
How do I read from and write to a smart card using a smartcard reader?
What are the best/free available softwares that I can use?
Any ideas?
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GPG stub for encryption subkey not working
I created the classical set of authentication, signature, and encryption subkeys with gpg, then moved them into a smartcard [ledger nano S], which seemed to work fine as I can see the three subkeys:
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