Dear list members:

        I am curious about some several things. The first being how I
get the list to send me a "summary" of the days posts rather than
individual emails as they hit the list?

        Secondly, I just purchased one of the IBM laptop Smartcard
Security ISO7816 DTC kits available on eBay. I was told that it is
basically an OEM of one of the GEM cards, and they can be used under
Linux using CAC cards. Can this be done (I hope so, I just bought one of
the cards), and what are the caveats in doing so?

        Incidentally, the military has not yet issued me my CAC card,
but as I understand there is a sample smartcard that comes with the IBM
unit, no?

        I am running RH 7.2, and have not yet installed any drivers to
drive smartcards under Linux.

        Where do you recommend I start?

        My goals are:

        (a) Be able to logon to Windows/XP using the smartcard, and also
let people logon without a smartcard in a standard way

        (b) Have RH 7.2 be able to read information from the smartcard
while doing a boot up in the "initrd" stage of booting. I wish to have
the cards provide a key which would be used in conjunction with
"loop-aes" (see this package on sourceforge.net) to decrypt my root
partition instead of having the user enter the pass phrase via the
keyboard

        (c) use the smartcard also for logging on to Linux!

Very Respectfully,

Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG
Beverly Hills, California
VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit)
stuartbh90210.net
west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043
east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859

Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's
free!)

JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL.

Monday, May 06, 2002 4:06 PM

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