>Some usefull apps can be written here. One really good idea would be a
>Linux app. that essentially mimics the NT 5 smartcard logon, so people could
>use their smartcard & linux box to log in. That would definitively be a
>valuable thing to do with the cards. Same thing could be done for other
>challenge-response based authentications, VPN protocols, etc. Any one of
>those would be a good thing for both the linux community and the smartcard
>world (card & reader manufacturers, ISVs, etc).
>
>All of this would definitively need to be based on a cryptographic card
>(Schlumberger's Cryptoflex and upcoming Cyberflex Access would be good
>choices). I am not aware of anybody working on it at this time.
I know of one company in Switzerland which has developed
'single sign-on' using the Cryptoflex/NT platform.
Single sign-on on Linux would be a valuable application.
The market for this application is huge especially when
the migration from NT to Linux becomes a stampede.
Dennis Wier
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