Todd Denniston wrote:
You are probably a little better in the know than me, so please clarify.I thought that all the new 64K cards were coming with the PIV applet, is that incorrect?
I just double-checked: Based on testimony, there is no 32k stock in the issuance pipeline any more; it's all 64k now. No cards will be issued with the PIV applet until October of this year.
Note that this is about production cards. You can certainly get test cards with the PIV applet. In fact, the guy two desks over has one. What we don't have is middleware (yet).
Are you Indicating that after October, we will start having yet another applet to build support for, i.e., the CAC bundle we are grabbing from Apple will not work with the PIV?????
Starting in October, DoD starts issuing cards with both the CAC v2 and PIV applets from the first upgraded DEERS/RAPIDS workstation. Transition to PIV-only cards (i.e., no CAC applets) should start three years after the last DEERS/RAPIDS workstation is upgraded to issue the PIV cards. We're expecting that the total time from the October start to issuing PIV-only cards will be ~4 years.
The current CAC bundle should work so long as there are CAC applets on board, and that will be true for a while. Personally, I'd think it would be easier to build a brand-new PIV plugin than to evolve the CAC plugin, especially since PIV-transition is *only* for DoD. OGA's that currently have no smartcard tokens start out with PIV from day one.
Oh, and the NSA can throw a wrench into this schedule at any time, just to keep things interesting.
-- Tim
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