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How to clean up expired certs on your smart card
Hi all, The other day a colleague of mine was trying to renew his smart card certificate, but he got an error telling him that there was not enough space in the card to store the new cert. So he asked me: Alex, how can I delete a certificate from my smart Read More...
PKCS#11 interface support on Windows 2000/Server 2003
Hi all, welcome back, I recently had some issues involving PKCS#11 interface on Windows, and it seems quite clear that we don't support it, at least on Windows 2000 & Server 2003, and as far as I know on any other version of Windows: Public Key Interoperability Read More...
How to select which Smart Card reader to perform actions on
Hi all, welcome back, Most of the time we only have a smart card reader in our machine, and we only use one smart card to perform crypto operations. But what if we have several readers and cards , and those cards share the same CSP (Cryptographic Service Read More...
SCardGetStatusChange fails with SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE error
Hi, welcome back, Smart Card Redirection on Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client 6.0 may cause SCardGetStatusChange to fail with error 0x8010001d - SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE - "The Smart card resource manager is not running." . When a user connects Read More...
Smart Card's PIN gets cached
Hi, welcome back, When we use a Smart Card with any application (i.e. Internet Explorer), the PIN that user inserted to access the card the first time may get cached and not requested again during the live of the application. But what if we need the PIN Read More...
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