SSL and smart cards

From: jagar (jang.public@ahhaaa.com)
Date: 10/30/02 

From: "jagar" <jang.public@ahhaaa.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:01:43 +0100

Hi!

I am trying to develop a service that fetches web pages using https.

I would like to use httpWebRequest class, but httpWebRequest can't talk to smart cards in order to authenticate the user. Here is my problem:
  a.. my customer requires that the service authenticates itself using a key stored on a smart card
  b.. the smart card periodically needs to get the PIN-code
  c.. the application should (preferably) run as a service
I believe that the above is difficult to achieve, even using the dotnet framework and C#. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Cheers /Jan Garefelt

PS: I don't know if this is relevant, but here goes anyway:
  a.. the card reader is a GemPC410
  b.. the crypto provider is an ID2 Cryptographic Service Provider, version 2.1