SUP Client Authentication using Smart Card (SmartCard)

[Former Member]

Is it possible to authenticate to SUP (in iOS client preferably) using Smart Card?

I'm looking for the way to authenticate User on the iOS client using ideally CAC or PIV card but other types of SmartCard will work too.

Any references to the docs or samples would be greatly appreciated!

[Vlad]

Hello Elvin,

SUP supports different authentication methods like user name/password or certificate (SSO). Even, if you are able to authenticate the user using a smart card, SUP will not be able to check if the user was valid (because the iOS device does not authenticate the user if he enters user name and password. It sends user credentials to the server and SUP checks the user.). A possible solution that I see is to obtain user name and password from the Smart Card storage (or somehow retrieve these values from the server) and then pass them to appropriate methods of Object API functions.

This is how I see the solution. If anybody has better answer, I would also like to hear it.

Thanks,

Vlad