[ale] Smart cards

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Mike,

I found these links by searching the Circuit Cellar Magazine archives.  
They're a little dated, but they might be useful to you.

search page results - 
http://www.circuitcellar.com/searchresults.html?cx=004146060655650187779%3Aytvqf4u1vio&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=smart+card&sa=Search#1157
basic smartcard 101 - 2004 - 
http://www.circuitcellar.com/library/print/0304/Millier-164/
designing for smartcards - 1998 - 
http://www.circuitcellar.com/library/print/0798/fancher-96/
designing for smartcards pt 2 - 1998 - 
http://www.circuitcellar.com/library/print/0898/Crouch97/

Sincerely,

Ron

On 10/6/2011 3:28 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing some looking at an idea, but I am having a hard time finding
> information.  I want to toy with the idea of creating a sign-on system
> using smart cards; something where you don't even need a username.  I
> know that this is possible for Web applications with relative ease,
> but I would like to cook up something that'd be useful for distributed
> administrative management.  For example, I could use a smart card to
> authenticate to my home network when I'm away from home, and my laptop
> (or whatever computer I am at) would only be allowed to access certain
> resources on my home network when a valid and non-revoked card
> (certificate) is used.
>
> I've read quite a bit about _how_ to get the software to do such
> things, but the important question is the one that I don't have an
> answer to.  I want cards that can be setup with keys and used from
> both Linux and Windows systems without a great deal of effort.  Is
> that actually possible?  Shouldn't I be able to have a card and a USB
> reader, for example, and be able to use my smart card to access a Web
> site, or SSH connection, or whatever, without having to worry about
> "it won't work with system X because there isn't a library for it" or
> whatever?
>
> Or are the only options for such a thing truly to order from out of
> the country?
>
>      --- Mike
>    

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