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NIC Seeks Vendor for Crypto Smart Cards|
- By Sonal Desai, Jul 31, 2008 1652 hrs IST
- Tags : RHEL 4.0, 5.0, Novel Suse, Kernel, Java Crypto, API, Bouncy Caste, Iaki, Wikipedia, CAPICOM, ActiveX, Microsoft, Vista, RSA, Digital Signature Certificate DSC , smarts card, USB tokens, Public Key Infrastructure PKI , National Informatics Center NIC
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The center issues Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) on smarts card and USB Tokens to be used in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled applications under the windows and Linux platforms.
The center uses these smart cards and USB tokens for public key applications enabled under the windows and the linux platforms to issue digital signature certificates.
THE National Informatics Centers (NIC), in August 2003 became the first digital signature certifying authority in the government sector, to issue DSCs to officials of the central and the state governments, and all district administrations to promote e-governance.
According to the tender documents, the crypto smart cards should have a minimum memory of 32K to store multiple DSCs and have a memory retention capacity of ten years.
The Windows environment should support Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista and future versions, the document said. It should be able to handle reference implementation (source code) in support of generating and verifying digital signature in Windows by using CAPICOM and JAVA Crypto API.
According to Wikipedia, CAPICOM is an ActiveX control created by Microsoft to help expose a select set of Microsoft Cryptographic Application Programming Interface (CryptoAPI) functions through Microsoft Component Object Model (COM). This will enable every environment that supports ActiveX to use its Cryptographic technologies, including web pages that are opened with Internet Explorer or any other web browser that supports ActiveX.
CAPICOM can be used to digitally sign data, inspect, verify and display their digital signature and/or digital certificate, add or remove certificates to or from the certificate stores, and finally, to encrypt or decrypt data.
The Linux platform should support RHEL 4.0/5.0 for Workstation, ES, AS, Novel Suse 10 and all future versions. The support should also be for all 2.4 and 2.6 series Kernel, as well as Jave Crypto API, Bouncy Castle and Iaki.
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