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Monday December 19, 2005

Sun Ray Smartcard FAQ I had to put together a little FAQ on Sun Ray smartcards for a customer recently. Since this info doesn't seem to be in one easily accessible place on the web at the moment, I'll post it here.

* The smartcards that Sun ships are Schlumberger PayFlex smartcards. They are actually now technically "Axalto" Payflex cards since Schlumberger spun off it's smartcard division. That division is now a separate entity called Axalto.

* A full list of the various cards supported is found in /etc/opt/SUNWut/smartcard.

* Cards based on ISO-7816-1 are supported. Cards with a T=0 or T=1 communication protocol are supported - you'll need SRSS 3.0 or later to get T=1 support.

* When buying cards from a vendor other than Sun, nine times out of ten no special 'activation' is required. The Sun Ray simply reads the card's serial number, no special pre-work is needed.

If the card is not instantly usable you will get an icon in your screen with a symbol representing Sun Ray and a card and a green arrow from the card to the Sun Ray.

If you look at auth.log and see that the card has not been recognized you may need to create a smartcard config file in /etc/opt/SUNWut/smartcard and include it in the probeorder.

Vendors who produce Sun Ray compatible cards:

Axalto: http://www.axalto.com

Giesecke & Devrient: http://www.gi-de.com/

G&D's Card Solutions: http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=42,64822&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

SecuNet for consulting and integration of Card solutions : http://www.secunet.de/index.php?ln=2

Oberther Card Systems: http://www.oberthurcs.com

Activcard for the middleware: www.activcard.com

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