PIV Toolkit Overview
This section provides Identity Proofing and Registration System (IDPRS) vendors and integrators an overview of the processes and ActivID CMS public interface usage patterns required to achieve device issuance in a FIPS 201 Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (NIST standard for HSPD-12/PIV).-compliant manner. This documentation focuses on the interface between an Identity Management System (IDMS) and the ActivID CMS.
If you want to configure the PIV Toolkit, refer to Configuring ActivID CMS for PIV and CIV. If you do not have a PIV-compliant CA The Certificate Authority (CA) issues and manages security credentials and public keys for message encryption in a networks environment. available, and you want to configure a PIV Personal Identity Verification (technical standard of "HSPD-12") environment for testing purposes, then refer to Configuring Microsoft Certificate Authority for PIV and CIV Deployments.
Since ActivID CMS 4.3, PIV and PIV-I support is natively integrated into the ActivID CMS installer; the PIV Toolkit is no longer released as a separate CD. Configuration of the PIV Toolkit remains similar as in previous versions.
This release also supports PIV and PIV-I configuration for Entrust®, Microsoft®, OpenTrust®, Verizon (previously CyberTrust) UniCERT™ and Symantec® Certificate Authorities.
In addition, this release supports the issuance of CIV Commercial Identity Verification cards without requiring any integration with an IDMS; ActivID CMS then automatically determines the data required to issue cards without requiring any specific integration by System Integrators. This document is not applicable to such CIV deployments; no integration is required for such deployments.
Related ActivID CMS Technical Publications
For additional information, refer to the following documentation:
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