Z3x Smart Card Driver
Ashlie Hagenson
I am trying to use my smart card on a Hyper-V guest-Running Windows 8.1-Microsoft image-Joined to the domain-I don't see a smart card reader in device manager, but not sure if I should in Hyper-V Guest
With a host-Running 8.1-Not joined to the domain-With integrated card reader-With TPM enabled-The smart card reader appears in device manager and has the latest driver-The smart card appears in device manager when it is plugged in-Connected with wired LAN
I have tried an external USB card reader and get the same result.My card works on other machines that are not Hyper-V guests.I have tried installing the smart card drivers from Lenovo on the guest which does not help.I have searched ITWEB and binged for a solution but can't find one.
Microsoft provides a driver library that contains a set of routines that standardize most of the functions that a smart card reader driver must perform. Vendor-supplied reader drivers must call these routines to perform the following actions:
The driver library processes most of the IOCTL requests that the resource manager sends to the reader driver. The Smart Card Driver IOCTLs section, lists the IOCTLs that the driver library processes on behalf of the reader driver.
Windows 11 22H2. I don't know when, but a smart card reader and smart card (CAC) that historically worked fine no longer works. The smart card reader is detected, but not the smart card. Everything works fine on desktop but not on laptop. All services are the same, and the supposed smart card driver file (umpass.sys) exists on both. I've tried two different readers and same result. Any help on how to get the smart card itself to get detected and show in device manager?
IT administrators can set up their Windows domain to allow YubiKeys to be used as smart cards for login to connected Windows systems. Use the YubiKey Manager for Windows, which includes both a Graphical User Interface and a Command Line Tool to create PIN Unlock Keys (PUK)s on YubiKey devices for customers that require the use of a PUK.
The YubiKey Smart Card Minidriver enables users and administrators to use the native Windows interface for certificate enrollment, managing the YubiKey smart Card PIN, and smart card authentication on Windows.
NOTE: Use the YubiKey Manager to configure both the SmartCard (PIV) functionality of the YubiKey as well as all other YubiKey applications. With this application you only need to install one configuration software for your YubiKey. Note that the Security Key Series are FIDO devices only, if you want to use a YubiKey as a PIV Smartcard then refer to the other types of YubiKeys available.
When a user inserts a smart card into a smart card reader on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows 7 tries to download and install the smart card minidrivers for the card by using Plug and Play services. If the driver for the smart card is not available at any of the preconfigured locations such as Windows Update, Windows displays an error message in the notification area that states that the driver software was not found.
All smart cards require additional software to work in Windows unless there is an inbox driver that lets the user use the card without installing additional software. The Windows Smart Card Framework was improved in Windows 7 to enable automatic download for smart card minidrivers from Windows Update or from other similar locations, such as a WSUS server, when the smart card is inserted into the reader. All smart cards that successfully pass the logo requirements, as published by the Windows Logo Program, benefit from this feature.
However, if the software that is required to use a smart card in Windows is not logoed or is of a type that differs from a minidriver, such as a PKCS#11 driver, a custom CSP, middleware, or an ActiveX control, the automatic download option fails because Microsoft certifies only smart card minidrivers. Therefore, if the user inserts a card for which a custom CSP is not already registered, the user receives an error message that states that the driver software is missing for the smart card device even though the user can use the smart card through additional software that was installed on the user's computer from a custom installation.
I am running Manjaro 19.0.2, and I am struggling to get it to even detect a smart card reader I'm using: the SCR3310v2.0. I need this to work in order to access online US Military resources using a CAC to verify and authenticate my identity. I am using Firefox 75.0 as my browser of choice.
pcsc-lite - PCSC Smart Cards Library
pcsc-ccid* - generic USB CCID (Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices) driver
perl-pcsc - Abstraction layer to smart card readers
pcsc-tools - Optional but highly recommended, these tools are used to test a PCSC driver, card and reader
After doing all of this work, the smart card reader will not even light up upon connecting it to my PC, which is typical in Windows machines. There is no indication of the hardware being detected in the file explorer, either.
I know there's nothing wrong with the reader itself, as it works just fine in a Windows. I also know it's not because of missing USB drivers, as they are installed with Manjaro from the get-go, or their faulty configurations, as my PC is able to detect and interface with other USB connected hardware, such as my phone.
Basically, poster kubwit's card reader used a custom USB product/vendor ID that needed to be added to /etc/libccid_Info.plist before the ccid driver detected the card. Your card reader should be supported as-is, unless the vendor ID has recently changed (as that card reader is originally from SCR product line, but Identiv bought SCR some time ago).
I was having a bit of an issue on Manjaro, as well. pcsc_scan (after installing everything Manuel listed) was showing that the card is detected correctly, but I could not manage to setup Firefox successfully with the Security device /usr/lib64/opensc-pkcs11.so. When I did so, Firefox would start to freeze up and would not allow me to sign into the module.
I have a Dell Latititude D630 and I am rather new with arch and arch based distros, and I was wondering if it is posible to setup my arch laptop to login with a PKI smart card and also use the smart card to store other private certs.. The reader is not working for me as of this writing, the reader is the O2Micro OZ77Cxx USB SmartCard Controller, and is built into the laptop, could anyone offer some support here?
I read guides about setting up GDM to login with a smartcard certificate, e.g. this one, but never tried it myself. Anyhow, you need to be lot more specific on what you run on the system, what you have tried, what works, what works not, etc. Maybe you want to open another thread in a different bbs category for that though, as it will not terribly related to kernel & hw anymore.
recently we got smart cards and readers to be able to connect to VPN with Cisco AnyConnect. Readers are Identiv SCR3500 A. When plugged in system recognizes this correctly in opensc-tool -l. However any operation related to the card fails with Unsupported card message (for example opensc-tool -r 0 -n) or messages likeSlot 0 (0x0): (GetSlotInfo failed, CKR_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED) in pkcs11-tool for example.
This leads to the idea of wrong driver being used. Identiv does have their own driver on their website here but after following the steps nothing changes (it's deploying libscmccid.so.5.0.35 into pcsc structure : /usr/local/pcsc/drivers/scmccid.bundle/Contents/Linux
If opensc-tool returned an Unsupported card message, the reader is not likely the problem, it is the card. OpenSC supports a number of cards, but not all.You can see the list of drivers opensc-tool -D You can also get the ATR of the card using opennsc-tool -a. If it can read the ATR, go to: -atr.apdu.fr/ and past in the ATR to get more information about the card.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we strive to support several popular smart-card types. However, because it is not possible to support every smart card available, this document specifies our targeted cards. In addition it provides information on how to investigate a potential incompatibility between the cards and RHEL.
On the lower level, the operating system communicates with the smart card reader, using the PC/SC protocol, and this communication is performed by the pcsc-lite daemon. The daemon forwards the commands received to the card reader typically over USB, which is handled by low-level CCID driver.
The PC/SC low level communication is rarely seen on the application level. The main method in RHEL for applications to access smart cards, is via a higher level API, the OASIS PKCS #11 API, which abstracts the card communication to specific commands that operate on cryptographic objects (private keys etc). Smart card vendors, often provide a shared module (.so file), which follows the PKCS #11 API, and serves as a driver for the card. That shared module can be imported by applications, and be used to communicate with the card directly. In the open source world, we have projects like OpenSC, which wraps several smart card drivers into a single shared module. For example the OpenSC module as shipped by RHEL8.0, provides support for Yubikey, Nitrokey, and the US-government PIV and CAC cards and many more, on a single module. We highly recommend smart card vendors to provide support for their cards using the OpenSC libraries.
The PKCS#11 URI scheme is used to consistently identify smart cards, tokens and objects on them in the system. They are used by most of the tools in RHEL 8+ and simplify configuration of applications for smart cards. More information about supported applications and uses of the URI can be found in separate blog post.
When working with applications using smart cards, it is often useful to know the URIs of the tokens or the objects stored in the token.
The identification URIs of registered PKCS#11 modules can be seen with the following command (this uses p11tool from gnutls-utils component).