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View supports smart cards and smart card readers that use a PKCS#11 or Microsoft CryptoAPI provider. You
can optionally install the ActivIdentity ActivClient software suite, which provides tools for interacting with
smart cards.
Users that authenticate with smart cards must have a smart card or USB smart card token, and each smart card
must contain a user certificate.
To install certificates on a smart card, you must set up a computer to act as an enrollment station. This computer
must have the authority to issue smart cards for users, and it must be a member of the domain you are issuing
certificates for.
I When you enroll a smart card, you can choose the key size of the resulting certificate. To use smart
MPORTANT
cards with local desktops, you must select a 1024-bit or 2048-bit key size during smart card enrollment.
Certificates with 512-bit keys are not supported.
The Microsoft TechNet Web site includes detailed information on planning and implementing smart card
authentication for Windows systems.
See "Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication,"
need to perform in Active Directory when you implement smart card authentication with View.
Smart card authentication is not supported by View Client for Mac or View Administrator. See the VMware
View Architecture Planning Guide for complete information on smart card support.
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