[SmartcardServices-Users] CCID drivers auto-start issues on the Snow Leopard

[Shawn A. Geddis]

On May 14, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Paul Babick wrote:
> So...what is the corrective action when the Smart Card doesn't appear in the keychain even though pcscd is running and pcsctest is successful?  
> 
> Reader is SCR 3310
> Card is Gemalto
> 
> Gemalto Mac library dated 22 April 2010 installed.  


Paul,

You need a tokend for the Gemalto card in use for the card to appear in Keychain and be used by Mac OS X Apps using native Security APIs (i.e. Keychain APIs). 

If you are using the Gemalto PKCS#11 Library then a card would not appear in the Keychain, but would be usable by PKCS#11 based applications.

On the flip side....
Note that with a supporting Tokend for a card you are using, the card could also be used within  a PKCS#11 based application (i.e. Firefox) without a PKCS#11 library by using the PKCS11Shim provided in Mac OS X (first developed via MacOSForge Project).  If you have this, point your PKCS#11-based application to use the following:
/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/pkcs11/tokendPKCS11.so

-Shawn
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