Daniel, I just noticed your credentials!
Do you (or anyone else on the list) have experience using a smartcard with WO
or any other web development? Here are things I'd like to do:
Easy-
Ask for an identity certificate (not too hard, they are X.509 based)
Sign an iText document (also not hard, the iText in Action book describes the
process)
Hard-
Get other properties off the card.
Purpose-
When a new user creates a profile, I don't want them to have to play 20
questions. It's error prone and annoying. Everyone in my organization (US Air
Force) has to use the card to gain access to a computer or government web site
anyway and hates entering thier data yet again to use a small app. Thier full
name, title or military rank, unique ID number, date of birth, organization,
etc. are all on the card and reasonably guaranteed to be error free. I want to
pull that data. Also, my app has more person entities than active users; for
example if I am my unit representative then I currently need to find and hand
type the personal information for the 20 people in my unit knowing I will never
get 20 people to create accounts in a painful process. But I could ask them to
stop by and put thier card in my computer for 5 seconds. As far as I can tell,
there is no way for a web server to get that information directly like it can
when it asks for a certificate
because this data is not stored in a certificate. But could a JavaScript
application get it?
I've found a lot of documentation on the web for using X.509 certificates, and
other sources for writing native client code to interface directly with
smartcards, but nothing on using the card's stored data from inside a web
browser.
Tavis McDevitt
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