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About this Guide

This document describes certgate’s microSD smartcard “cgCard” including its software architecture and general use.

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Due to that, this guide is intended for developers, system integrator and administrators who want to integrate the certgate microSD smartcard in their smartcard aware environment or software.

System Overview

Smartcards provide one of the most reliable and secure mechanism for storing digital certificates (identities) on a dedicated hardware modul which is specifically designed with security in mind. cgCard in combination with your software, provides you with the possibility to benefit from this great technology on your mobile and desktop applications.

Hardware

cgCard

cgCard is the first microSD card which integrates smartcard technology with regular flash memory.

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• Supports every PKI and two-factor authentication
• Hardware based, dedicated secure element
• Easy to use, portable certificate store
• On-card signature generation (the private key never leaves the secure element)
• No need for additional hardware: cgCard can be used in every microSD card slot
• Flash memory for storing additional data

Software

Windows Driver - certgate PC/SC Driver

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Software stack provided together with cgCard

Installation

The certgate PC/SC Driver is installed using the msi compatible setup packages. The following operating systems are supported:

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Now the certgate microSD SmartCard is ready to be used (e.g. ready to load and install card applets). You have the possibility to load your own card applets. certgate provides with the cgSecurePlatform product the cryptovison PKCS#15 card applet and the corresponding middleware.

How to Get Support

If you have a problem with the cgCard (e.g. cgCard is not recognized by software or tray icon) and want to get support under [email protected] you shall include following information:

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The log file. By default it is located under:
C:\Program Files\certgate\certgate SmartCard microSD\logs\cgPCSCVx.log

Configure Logging

A standard log file is created by the driver it self everytime it is started by system. The log level and log file name of the driver is set via registry values and can be adopted if necessary.

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