User's Manual

CryptoIdentity User Guide – 1. Introduction to CryptoIdentity and CryptoKit
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1 INTRODUCTION TO CRYPTOIDENTITY AND CRYPTOKIT
This chapter provides an introduction to CryptoIdentity and CryptoKit.
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1. 1 WHAT IS CRYPTOIDENTITY
CryptoIdentity is an USB token, the size of a door-key, which includes a cryptographic chip
and combines both the functions of a smartcard and its reader.
One of the major advantages of the CryptoIdentity is that, to access the digital credentials
or protected objects stored into it, no reader is needed.
It is possible to store into the CryptoIdentity digital certificates, cryptographic keys or data
and have them protected in the same way they would have been stored in an equivalent
cryptographic smartcard.
You can use the CryptoIdentity to achieve strong authentication in the following scenarios:
 Virtual Private Networks (Microsoft VPN, CheckPoint, Cisco, Avaya, SSH Sentinel,
etc.).
 User identification for remote banking, possibly using digital signatures for non-
repudiation.
 Controlled access to restricted Internet sites.
 Performing secure B2B transactions.
 E-commerce, sale of services over the Internet authentication and encryption.
 Windows 2000 and Windows XP logon through Microsoft standard “smart card” logon
mechanisms.
 Windows XP native support for IEEE 802.1X (wireless network) authentication using
USB tokens.
 PKI enabled infrastructures (Novell, Entrust, Computer Associates, Entrust, etc.)
The major features of CryptoIdentity are:
Easy of use for the clients: just connect it into the USB port to access digital certificates
or protected data.