Gary,

Thanks for your polite reply.

PCSC is more of a Hardware specification. The
Linux/UNIX/Mac implementation of PCSC can be found at
www.linuxnet.com. This is not what I am looking for.

I am looking for the actual application specs for the
app that goes on the smart card. Something like the
manual for creating a smart card for Windows 2000
login. I would also like to know what cards are or can
be used for this (Multiflex, GemXpresso ect.).

I want to create a Smart Card for logging into Windows
2000 Pro at startup using their interface.

Nick

--- Gary McIntyre <gary.mcintyreCOMPUTER.ORG> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> As you probably already know, there are a number of
> standards out there for smart card integration. You
> may want to start by taking a look at the PC/SC
> implementation for Windows as it is documented in
> the MS Platform DDK and SDK CDs. Some time back,
> Microsoft chose the PC/SC specification (still in
> version 1.0) to handle smart card and smart card
> reader integration into their OSes, and is a member
> of the PC/SC Workgroup that is working on the next
> version of the standard (www.pcscworkgroup.com).
>
> One stumbling block I can see (given your bias
> towards Linux) may be that there has been little
> effort to port the specification to Linux.
> Certainly, Microsoft is NOT a member of the OpenCard
> consortium, and (to my knowledge) there is no plan
> to make them so. That said, a number of smart card
> vendors ARE members of both groups...
>
> Gary McIntyre
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nicholas Schuetz
> To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 smartcard login
>
>
> Thank you for your reply but I am afraid you do
> not understand my question. Allow me to rephrase it.
> What I meant to ask is what application and or
> applet needs to go on the Smart Card itself. What
> card(s) and from what manufacturer need to be used?
> I want to know what is the actual application or
> applet needed for the Smart Card Login in Window$
> 2000 Profe$$ional? Where can I get it? What is the
> code for that application or applet? What does
> Window$ want from the Smart Card for this
> authentication?
>
>
>
>
>
> Smart Cards:
>
>
>
> When you order or buy a Smart Card from a Smart
> Card vendor it comes to you with the OS installed on
> it and that's it (In some rare cases not even that).
> The Smart Card IC is like a very small computer.
> They have CPU's w/ cryptocoprocessors, ROM, RAM and
> EEPROM as a part of their design. The commands used
> for communicating to the cards are called APDU's.
> You send these APDU's via a software interface
> (www.linuxnet.com or www.opencard.org) to the Smart
> Card Reader/Terminal with the Smart Card inserted in
> it. The Smart Card then replies to you with a
> response code (SW1SW2) and your requested data...
>
>
>
> ....Go to www.linuxnet.com or www.opencard.org for
> more info on Smart Card development.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Focus on Microsoft Mailing List
> [mailto:FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM]On Behalf Of Kurt
> Seifried
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:10 PM
> To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Re: Windows 2000 smartcard login
>
>
>
> Ok there are three things usually you get when you
> buy a smartcard usually:
>
>
>
> The smartcard itself, the good ones have onboard
> memory, cryptographic components and an RNG, the
> cert is born on the card, lives on the card and dies
> on the card. As far as I know you cannot buy the
> "software" on the chips/etc on the smartcard
> seperately.
>
> The smartcard reader, nothing to interesting here
> unless it's something like leapfrog's with a
> fingerprint scanner built in.
>
> The application software for you PC, i.e. tools to
> access the card, have it create a new cert, delete
> old ones, test the card, etc.
>
>
>
> Then you also need applications that know what to
> do with it (such as MSIE, Outlook, etc.).
>
>
>
> Also you typically do not buy the cards from MS
> (for that matter do they sell them at all?), you go
> to a vendor like CryptoCard.
>
>
>
> Kurt Seifried, seifriedsecurityportal.com
> Securityportal - your focal point for security on
> the 'net
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> From: Hellaenergy
>
> To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:01 PM
>
> Subject: Windows 2000 smartcard login
>
>
>
> Does anyone out there have the smartcard
> application that needs to be used to log on with a
> smartcard in Win2000? I have searched the Windows
> website up and down and found nothing regarding the
> actual code for this task. I want the actual
> smartcard application that goes on the card. I DO
> NOT a way to BUY the card from Micro$oft.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

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