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date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:21:13 +0200,
group: microsoft.public.platformsdk.security
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RE: Vista and signing certificate on smart card
Hi Paolo,
The fact that the smart card certificates appear on the IE store depends on
the presence of a background process that scans all the available smart
cards, reads their certificates and put them into the IE certificate store.
This process is usually installed by the setup provided by the smart card
manufacturer.
That being said, a smart card can be used directly even if its certificates
are not present on the IE certificate store. This is done through Crypto API
that uses the CSP associated with the smart card. It's clear then that the
commercial program you are talking about is using this approach.
In your case, since you are using .NET, I suggestion you to use my small
CAPI wrapper for .NET that I wrote in C# . It will enable you to call all the
WIN32 Crypto API function necessary to use your smart card. You can get it
from the following link :
http://www.idrix.fr/Root/Samples/Capi.cs
If you are not familiar with CAPI, you should first take a look at MSDN and
the samples it provides to get your self used with its philosophy.
Cheers,
--
Mounir IDRASSI
IDRIX
http://www.idrix.fr
To reach me: mounir_idrix_fr (replace the underscores with the at and dot
characters respectively)
"Paolo Mazzoni" wrote:
> Hi all,
> unfortunately i got Vista from 2 years and i was unable to use my smart card
> reader untill this June.
> Now that I have the new (finally working) drivers i don't see my signing
> certificate listed on my personal certificates (from IE).
> So i don't see it if I write in VB .NET :
>
> Dim storeMy As X509Store
> storeMy = New X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser)
> storeMy.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly)
>
> But if I use a commercial program to sign files it works (still without
> seeing the certificate from IE).
> With Windows XP when I insert the smarcard in the reader i see the
> certificate listed.
>
> How can i use .NET framework to take and use my signing certificate on
> Windows Vista?
> Thank you and sorry for my english
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Ing. Paolo Mazzoni
> IT-Expert di Paolo Mazzoni
> www.it-expert.it
>
date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:39:02 -0700
author: Mounir IDRASSI am
Re: Vista and signing certificate on smart card
Wow thank you...
i think that this is the solution to my problem...
i'll tell you as soon as i can.
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Ing. Paolo Mazzoni
www.it-expert.it
"Mounir IDRASSI" <moonidra@newsgroups.nospam> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:23A1B9C5-4360-4FAB-9314-CC5CACC35CBD@microsoft.com...
> Hi Paolo,
>
> The fact that the smart card certificates appear on the IE store depends
> on
> the presence of a background process that scans all the available smart
> cards, reads their certificates and put them into the IE certificate
> store.
> This process is usually installed by the setup provided by the smart card
> manufacturer.
> That being said, a smart card can be used directly even if its
> certificates
> are not present on the IE certificate store. This is done through Crypto
> API
> that uses the CSP associated with the smart card. It's clear then that the
> commercial program you are talking about is using this approach.
> In your case, since you are using .NET, I suggestion you to use my small
> CAPI wrapper for .NET that I wrote in C# . It will enable you to call all
> the
> WIN32 Crypto API function necessary to use your smart card. You can get it
> from the following link :
>
> http://www.idrix.fr/Root/Samples/Capi.cs
>
> If you are not familiar with CAPI, you should first take a look at MSDN
> and
> the samples it provides to get your self used with its philosophy.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Mounir IDRASSI
> IDRIX
> http://www.idrix.fr
>
> To reach me: mounir_idrix_fr (replace the underscores with the at and dot
> characters respectively)
>
>
> "Paolo Mazzoni" wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> unfortunately i got Vista from 2 years and i was unable to use my smart
>> card
>> reader untill this June.
>> Now that I have the new (finally working) drivers i don't see my signing
>> certificate listed on my personal certificates (from IE).
>> So i don't see it if I write in VB .NET :
>>
>> Dim storeMy As X509Store
>> storeMy = New X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser)
>> storeMy.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly)
>>
>> But if I use a commercial program to sign files it works (still without
>> seeing the certificate from IE).
>> With Windows XP when I insert the smarcard in the reader i see the
>> certificate listed.
>>
>> How can i use .NET framework to take and use my signing certificate on
>> Windows Vista?
>> Thank you and sorry for my english
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Ing. Paolo Mazzoni
>> IT-Expert di Paolo Mazzoni
>> www.it-expert.it
>>
date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:26:37 +0200
author: Paolo Mazzoni
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