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SafeSign Identity Client for Windows Vista
Smart card logon for system and network
Microsoft Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced an entirely new layered architecture for supporting smart cards: the Windows Smart Card Framework.
Windows Vista integrates functions dedicated to smart card management, such as Smart Card Base CSP and Smart Card KSP. Windows Vista also introduces Crypto API Next Generation (CNG).
The link between Windows Vista and smart cards must be provided by a minidriver (middleware), which is especially designed to Microsoft specifications.
SafeSign Identity Client for Windows Vista
SafeSign Identity Client (IC) Card Module applet for Windows XP, 2003 and Vista, the minidriver developed by A.E.T., is completely tested by Microsoft and fully supports the new architecture. AET worked with Microsoft’s Dublin-based Smart Card Certification Center to certify its card minidriver meets the required quality level of the Windows logo program for smart card minidrivers.
The SafeSign IC Card Module Applet is based on the standard SafeSign IC Applet and thus completes the total SafeSign Identity Client product range. SafeSign Identity Client, combined with smart cards or USB tokens, easily facilitates strong authentication, data encryption and digital signatures. These are all key functions to corporate Windows® Vista users.
Smart cards are the first choice for authentication devices used in secure network access. Deploying smart cards in the enterprise is made even easier with the combination of Windows Smart Card Framework and SafeSign IC. By providing the new SafeSign IC minidriver the range of smart card form factor and platform choices for customers requiring secure logical and physical access is larger than ever.
Smart card support within Vista has many new benefits:
The SafeSign IC Card Module Applet is based on the standard SafeSign IC Applet and thus completes the total SafeSign Identity Client product range. SafeSign Identity Client, combined with smart cards or USB tokens, easily facilitates strong authentication, data encryption and digital signatures. These are all key functions to corporate Windows® Vista users.
Smart cards are the first choice for authentication devices used in secure network access. Deploying smart cards in the enterprise is made even easier with the combination of Windows Smart Card Framework and SafeSign IC. By providing the new SafeSign IC minidriver the range of smart card form factor and platform choices for customers requiring secure logical and physical access is larger than ever.
Smart card support within Vista has many new benefits:
- A smart card can now support multiple certificates for logon.
- More than one container on the smart card can be marked default. The number of certificates that can be stored and containers that can be created depend on how much space is available on the smart card.
- Changing the PIN and unblocking a smart card are natively supported and integrated.
- Multiple Terminal Services sessions are supported in a single process, because Windows Vista is integrated with Terminal Services to provide Fast User Switching.
