Hello Martin,
thanks for you interesting request. I can answer your question only for the
Windows 9x/NT environment and GEMplus reader.
In this environment you have to exchange some built-in security functions in
your browser. For the Navigator the security functions are encapsulated in the
PKCS#11-package (provided by RSA). But it's possible to replace some
of the crypto-functions (e.g. RSA-signing) in this way, that these functions
handle the crpyto algorithms with the certificate and the asymmetric function at
the smartcard. GEMplus provides a package called GEMSAFE (99$). In this package
all necessary software plug-ins for Netscape and IE are included. Also there are
very good tutorials and user manuals (in pdf) included and - of course - the
smartcard.
Please ask gemplus-Support for these pdf-files about GEMsafe. It's NOT at the
GEMPlus WWW-Server.
But I have no further informations, how you could build your own plug-in for
linux-netscape. By the way I'm very interested to solve this problem
for the apache-WWW-Server with SSL-support. I would like to store the
private key of the server into the smartcard and I want to use a modified
version of the SSL-Software to communicate with this card.
Nevertheless I hope, that these informations push you a little
bit in the right direction.
Could you send me some results of your request?
Best regards and good luck
Michael
Martin Sigbjorn schrieb:
I need information on how I can use smartcards with Netscape
Navigator/Communicator and Internet Explorer, in order to perform secure
authentication of a user. I know these browsers have support for
smartcard authentication through certificates and SSL but I don't know
how it works (or how to make it work). Is it possible just by the
presense of PC/SC drivers + reader + card, or do I need additional
software?
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