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 Smartcard

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Standards for smartcards

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* FIPS 201.

* NIST SP 800-78 (Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for PIV).

* X.509 Certificate for Digital Signature.

* X.509 Certificate for Key Management.

* X.509 Certificate for Card Authentication.

* Card Capability Container.

* Cardholder Unique Identifier.

* X.509 Certificate for PIV Authentication.

* Cardholder Fingerprints.

* Security Object.

* Cardholder Facial Image.

* Printed Information.

United States  federal government standard that specifies Personal Identity

Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors.

* http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/piv/index.html

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_201

Driver for smartcards

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Windows:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/default.mspx

  Smart Card Devices - Architecture and Driver Support

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/usb_ccid.mspx

  Microsoft Class Drivers for USB CCID Smart Cards

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee484819.aspx

  USB CCID Smart Card Reader Class Driver with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2, Windows

  Embedded CE

Smart Card Minidriver:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx

  Smart Card Minidriver Specification

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976832

  Error message when you insert a smart card in a reader on a Windows 7-based or

  Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer: "Device driver software was not successfully

  installed"