This guide contains all the necessary information for application developers in order to use certgateAirID's middleware with dedicated smartcards. It gives a basic instruction to PKCS11 and lists all deviations from the cryptoki-standard which are necessary to support all certgate AirID products with pre-installed smartcard applets (e.g. cgCard or cgToken). This guide is devided as follows:
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Who is this guide for?
For app developers who want to use native PKCS11 code to maintain smartcard-objects (keypairs, secret keys, certificates, storage objects) or use on-card-cryptography. PKCS11 can be used platform independent (all systems which support c / c++). Our library is shipped platform specific as e.g. .dll or .lib (with separate headers) and can be dynamically loaded into your program. Loading the library is outside of scope of this documentation.
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| Note You should have some basic understanding about Public-Key cryptography, digital certificates, digital signature and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in order for you to understand the discussed topics. |