Developers need to test test their code with real Smart Cards that can work with Windows. Here are some manufacturers who can provide the same. If you are a manufacturer and not listed here, please drop me a note and I will include the same. Raak Technologies...

Here is an interesting link that I found on implementing Smart Card Authentication with ASP.NET - http://blogs.msdn.com/healthblog/archive/2006/11/22/the-connected-health-framework-a-service-oriented-architecture-for-health-it.aspx

The Smart Card Infrastructure White paper has been published on the download center - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac201438-3317-44d3-9638-07625fe397b9&displaylang=en . This paper has detailed information on Windows Smart...

Summary list of information related to Smart Card Readers and Card Mini-Drivers Smart Card Mini-Driver Specification: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx Certification Requirements: http://blogs.msdn.com...

Vista ships with "Password" and "Smart Card" Credential Providers. Some vendors are interested in writing custom credential providers. Check out http://shellrevealed.com/ for latest and up-to-date information on how to write Credential Providers. Credential...

Windows (upto and including Vista) supports only PC/SC v1.0 . As a part of Windows Vista, there is a standard USB-CCID class driver in-box. This means that any USB Smart Card reader which is USB-CCID compliant, will not need any additional drivers - they...

Digital Signature and Encryption can use Smart Card based Certificates in Outlook. In Office 2007, Select “Tools” à “Trust Center” à “Email Security” See the attached image for configuration. If you have had an email change from user@exchange...

Differences in Vista Smart card logon under Windows Vista has changed in several key aspects. The primary differences are highlighted below: · Logon is no longer triggered to smart card insertion. Users are required to press Cntrl+Alt+Del (CAD)...

CertUtil is a tool available on Windows Vista and Windows 2003 Server Admin Pack CertUtil (tool available on Vista and W2K3 Admin pack) Listing Certificates available on the card: Command to list Certificates available on the Smart Card: certutil...

The Smart Card Resource Manager (SCRM) provides the basic infrastructure that all other smart card components. It manages smart card readers on the system and application interactions. It is fully PC/SC 1.0 compliant. The smart card resource manager...

The following table illustrates the Group Policy Settings that can be used on a per-machine basis. There are no settings on a per user basis. Some of these settings can be applied only to a Vista level functional domain – for example Domain Hints. All...

Card Mini-Driver detailed certification requirements are now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver_certreqs.mspx Card Module Certification Kit ( CMCK) has shipped with the Windows Logo Kit (WLK) . WLK...

What Smart Cards and Readers work with Windows? For Smart Cards, Check out Certificate Life Cycle Manager (CLM) Product website which has a partner listing - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/clm/default.mspx . This is just a starting list of companies...

CardMod.h required to build a Smart Card Mini Driver is available for download as a part of the Crypto Next Generation (CNG) SDK download . This is a small package that gets installed on top of the Windows Vista SDK .

Card Module which has been talked about is also called Smart Card Mini Driver. The specification for the same is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx If you have comments about the specification...

Here is a link to the white paper titled "Enterprise Smart Card Deployment in the Microsoft® Windows® Smart Card Framework" - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa7ec97c-11be-4e53-a0c4-04719b6a7ab6&DisplayLang=en This document...

Here is a link to a good presentation on this subject: https://ms.impactbusiness.com/pescio/presentations/USPS_CIO_Summit_HSPD-12_FIPS_201_Bridging_Policies_Process_and_Technology.ppt

Card Module API is available on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccrypto/security/cryptography_functions.asp

Downloading Base CSP for Windows Today, the Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider (Base CSP) is available as a free download from the Windows Update site ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8095fd5-c7e5-4bee-9577-2ea6b45b41c6&DisplayLang...

(Thanks to David Cross for the links) Top Whitepapers: Default Access Control Settings in Windows Server 2003 whitepaper: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2A76C348-FE02-4CB7-9B7A-5A0B9964BD9C&displaylang=en Internal...

This blog is about Smart Card infrastructure in Windows. The objective of this blog is to educate everyone about Smart Card infrastructure in Windows - clarifications on the workings (see MSDN for workings), comments on scenarios that we support well...