[Discuss] smartcard reader

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

On 09/20/2013 10:04 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 07:20 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>>
>> It looks like I can buy a smartcard reader for $30.
>>
>>    http://www.belkin.com/us/pressreleases/8797797352508
>>
>> I can't find any information about how it can be used, however. Where
>> would I get a small number of smartcards? Where would I get the software
>> to require the card for logins? Is that software part of RH or Windows?
>>
>> Any references much appreciated.
>
> DogTag (the package name in fedora is dogtag-pki).
>   http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
>
> Dogtag claims to be the full (software) infrastructure you need to run
> your own smartcard system.
>
>
> Related is the "coolkey" library, which lets you do PAM authentication
> with smartcards (as well as a web-browser plugin for authenticating to
> web sites with smartcards.


I should mention that I can't vouch for the whole infrastructure aspect; 
I've never set up most of that stuff.  I came across DogTag when I was 
looking for linux utilities to interrogate some smartcards I had.  The 
command line utilities worked great for pulling out information from the 
smartcard.

Matt