Re: Question Regarding Smart Card Deployment

Think of smart card readers as floppy drives. You do not need a Verbatiun floppy drive to read a Verbatim floppy disk
As long as there are drivers for your vesrion o fthe OS, you should be able to go with any vendor's smart card readers.
Of course, check out how they perform with your chosen cards, as there are known cases where the smart card reader mixed with the selected CSP and smart card can have unfavorable login times.
Brian

"DLN" <dnadon_nospm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ePbBNkW9HHA.3400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm researching smartcard deployments, and how they integrate into a Windows Domain and Microsoft Certificate Services (Windows 2003 Server Enterprise to be specific), and I have a question that I'm hoping someone here can help me answer. If I have a specific vendor smartcard solution (something manufactured by Gemalto, for example), can I get any generic smartcard read/writer and use it with the web enrollment interface to write to the smartcard, or does the writer have to be compatible with the vendor solution?

Thanks,

DLN


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