Questions tagged [smartcard]
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Yubikey 4 not working (Linux & Windows)
I received a Yubikey 4 a few days ago. I got it along a special WIRED Magazine offer. The problem with the key is, that it is not recognized neither by Windows 10, nor by Linux (Mint 18).
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NFC/RFID - Acr122u
So I'm using the Acr122u reader as part of a project implementing Host card emulation on an Android device and need the reader for testing my application.
Picture of reader here
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Smartcard Client SLL Firefox no selection
I'm trying for days now to setup client ssl with apache and firefox using my hsm smartcard.
I generated one certificate for every page I'm trying to set up. The smartcard shows up in firefox and ...
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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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Windows 10 Logon using smartcard - Missing Driver
I am trying to log in to a domain account using smart card work but was not successful.
I have the following environment setup for the test.
Client Laptop (Lenovo P50)
Windows 10 Fall Creator
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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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Yubikey not detected by gpg-agent and pcsc_scan on LMDE
I have an issue regarding the GPG agent that prevents me from using several commands and particularly the one that enforces the user to touch the key before signing. I am on Debian 8.9 / Linux Mint ...
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Remote Desktop from Window 10 asking for Smart Card service
I'm trying to connect to my work PC using Remote Desktop from my home, Windows 10 PC. I bring up the Remote Desktop dialog, enter the computer name to connect to, and hit Connect, but receive the ...
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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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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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ActivClient add-on crashes Firefox on Linux
My work requires that I access to websites under the DoD umbrella using a CAC card, with ActivClient as the smartcard middleware. The security device is registered with the help of an add-on called "...
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Athena ID Protect v2 Token triggers Select Card dialog on PKCS#11 C_Login
I am playing around with an Athena IDProtect v2 Token from NXP (the one compatible with the IDProtect Laser product line) on Windows 10 Pro (x64 german).
After installing the Athena client middle ...
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Is YubiKey 4 broken on Windows 10 'Creators Update'? PIV Manager 1.4.2 can't load smart card
If I open YubiKey Piv Manager (1.4.2) then insert my YubiKey 4, everything works great the first time. It recognizes the key and allows me to initialize it. However, if I remove the key and try to do ...
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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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SmartCard logon - Invalid Signature - on switch user
Little Background: I am replacing some computers in my enterprise environment. We are running Win 7 x64 Enterprise. For our SmartCard readers are are using HID OmniKey 3121. SmartCard logon worked ...
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What does the error message "The smart card is not fully personalized for use" mean?
Cannot upload any key to the smart card, due to the following error message. Changing the pin on smartcard works...
The message is seemingly issued by the smartcardcredentialprovider.dll
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How can I detect if a smartcard is still in the keyboard?
We use smart cards in Dell keyboards for authentication at work. Unfortunately they are also the badges that let us into our offices (and other places). Being old, we are constantly forgetting our ...
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How to sign a PDF using belgian eID on Ubuntu 16.04
The Belgian government give citizen a EID card, wich hold a certificate.
It also request the citizen to sign PDF to submit forms.
PDF signature is only possible (up to today) in Adobe Reader.
Adobe ...
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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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Smart Card Reader seen, but not the smart card
I have Windows 7 running under VirtualBox. Windows 7 contains an application that requires a smart card to work.
The host system has a smart card reader and under Linux (native OS) I can see both ...
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What Blank Smart Card do I need to use to work with my E5570 Laptop?
I have a smart card reader in my new laptop (Dell Latitude E5570) and I wanted to use it for windows login and other authentication processes within Windows 10.
The built-in (It seems to be a module ...
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Cannot enroll smartcard login
I've been tasked with attempting to set up smart cards for login in a test environment, however I'm encountering a very nasty problem.
Upon trying to load a certificate on a factory-new smart card ...
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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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How to explain KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED in ntoskrnl.exe +70380?
I have very hard puzzle with blue screens on windows 7.
Few weeks ago a computer started to have some blu screens during smartcard computation. This is a POS machine with a smartcard, for every ...
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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
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Convert a public key to GPG readable format
For a backup scenario, I want to peform asymmetric encryption of the data. For this I'm using duplicati (2.0) paired with GPG.
Now I have a smartcard (PKCS#11 / CSP interface via OpenSC) on which I ...
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Keypairs are stored securely on HSM. But during a smart card enrollment process, isn't the private key supposed to be injected into the smartcard?
I understand that in a PKI that utilises HSM, the key pairs are securely stored in the HSM. Applications that require encryption/decryption capabilities will communicate with the HSM via APIs.
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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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OpenPGP 2.x Smartcard Lifetime?
What's the average lifetime of using an OpenPGP 2.x Smartcard with an USB Reader (Gemalto K30)?
And does the USB (SIM) reader has a significant influence on the smartcards lifetime? (Because the chip ...
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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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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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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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Chrome cannot use Virtual Smart Card, IE works fine
In Chrome under Windows 8.1, when logging in to a site that requires a certificate, and trying to use a Virtual Smart Card, I'm getting the message "The security device cannot perform the requested ...
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Firefox Smartcard Certificate Import error
I recently bought myself a Smartcard-HSM (which is of importance here because it doesn't allow export or import of private keys).
Now I've used the "famous" XCA application to create a small CA on ...
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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:
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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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What are the ssh-keygen -D and -U parameters for? How are they used with smartcards?
The ssh-keygen manpage lists the following two parameters:
-D reader = Download the RSA public key stored in the smartcard in reader.
-U reader = Upload an existing RSA private key into the ...
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How do I remove multiple Smart Card entries in the "run as different user" dialog?
I was setting up a new Windows 8.1 install on a Dell laptop our org owns. As we like to put our own software on the machines, we will wipe and reinstall from scratch. After the initial install, as I ...
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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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cannot login with with ad credentials
I cannot login on my laptop with my AD account, only with my smart card. This happened only after I changed my AD account password.
If i lock my laptop while I'm logged with my smart card, I can ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 certificate manager restore private key somehow
This is may sounds very strange but let me explain a situation:
I was using my PKI Private Key installed at Windows Certificate Storage I get token, so I decided to load them to token and delete them ...
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Reinstalled Windows 7 can't get Smart card to work
I need a smart card to log in to work remotely. I've just reinstalled Windows on my desktop machine at home and inserted the smart card reader, but Windows is not detecting the drivers. I went to ...
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