How do you use a PKI card?

How do you use a PKI card?

3.12. 1 Enrolling the PKI Authenticator Using PKI Device

1. Click the PKI icon in Add Authenticator.
2. (Optional) Specify a comment in the Comment.
3. (Optional) Select the preferred category from the Category.
4. Click Save.
5. Insert the card in reader or connect the token to the machine.
6. Select a key from Key.

What is a PKI card?

PKI is an acronym for public key infrastructure, which is the technology behind digital certificates. A digital certificate allows its owner to encrypt, sign, and authenticate. Accordingly, PKI is the technology that allows you to encrypt data, digitally sign documents, and authenticate yourself using certificates.

Is PIN stored on card?

1: Offline PIN, this is stored on the card and verified by the card. This PIN is encoded on the secure element of the chip card. 2: Online PIN, this PIN is not stored on the card and is verified by the Issuer of the card. A card may support 1, 2 or both.

How can I check my smart card certificate?

List certificates available on the smart card. To list certificates that are available on the smart card, type certutil -scinfo . Entering a PIN is not required for this operation. You can press ESC if you are prompted for a PIN.

What are PKI certificates used for?

A PKI certificate is a trusted digital identity. It is used to identify users, servers or things when communicating over untrusted networks, to sign code or documents and to encrypt data or communication. A PKI certificate is also called a digital certificate.

What happens when you give a PKI card a pin?

When the card powers up, it will ask for your PIN, if that allows it to properly decrypt your private key then the card can go ahead and do crypto things, if the PIN you gave does not produce the private key which matches the certificate (ie it produces garbage), then the card will throw an Incorrect PIN Error.

Where does the private key go on a PKI card?

So here’s my response to your two points based on how these things usually work: There is a certificate embedded in this card which contains my private key. Correct. Usually your PKI smart card will have a mini-computer in in that powers up when you connect it to the card reader.

How does a smart card generate a public key?

One of the operations that all smart cards support is generate a new keypair. The card will generate a new private key (which will never leave your card, if you specify that option), then the corresponding public key will be passes back to the PC to be made into a certificate by a CA, then handed back to the card as a certificate for storage.

How do I change my pin on my NEXUS card?

Click on a card to select it. Under What do you what to do? on the upper right, click Unblock / Change PIN . A form is shown. In the form, let the person enter a new PIN with 4 digits. Click Next to save the PIN. (For feedback on product documentation: Select Reason for contact: Feedback on documentation .)