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Posted by Michael Vilain on 11/21/44 11:21
In article <1121470125.536523.137680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
drazen.karacic@gmail.com wrote:
> > Well, what, specifically, are you trying to authenticate? Smart cards
> > plug into a _local_ reader, no? The reader would have to transmit that
> > information to any remote system and so remote system would have to
> > trust the local system.
>
> Ok. Sorry, I didn't give enough information....
>
> I'd like to make web based application, where clients would be
> authenticated on a remote server via smart card reader with drivers and
> certificates installed on client computer.
>
> So, on a client side we have card reader, smart card and valid
> certificate published by my cert server. Celint should point to a web
> page and should be verified as certified user.
>
> So, the question is: what has to be on the server side of the story?
> How could I validate user? I guess I have to have certification server
> (what, where, how), API to communicate between PHP and certification
> server, ... I'd like to know how is the authentiucation handled by
> itself?!
>
> This is very common for Internet banking applications (mainly in .NET
> and Java), so let's say that I have to make authetication in that way
> using PHP...
>
> Tnx
From my picture of this technology, it's dependent on the vendor who
supplies the smart card hardware and software for the client and the
remote authentication software. The authentication is totally dependent
on the client communicating to the remote authentication server. Since
this occurs on the client, I don't see how this could be done with php
at all--it's strictly server side.
Are you asking if there's a php-version of this software or if it can be
done with php? Again, I think php is the wrong technology to do this as
it's server or remote-side only. Java, however, can run a client/server
model and do this with no problem.
Rethink your requirement to use php. I doubt you'll get this type of
application to work with it.
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