Activating Support for Virtual Smart Cards and Mobile App Certificates

ActivID CMS allows the issuance of virtual smart cards, as well as credentials (mobile app certificates) for mobile devices (phones, tablets). However, the administrator must first activate support for these types of devices using settings available in the Operator Portal.

Important: By default, support for the Virtual Smart Card and Mobile App Certificate device types is not enabled.

The Devices topic (available on the Customization sub-tab of the Configuration tab) includes the settings needed to:

Enable support for multiple device types (OP_2.0 Smart Cards, PKCS#11 Devices, Mobile App Certificates, Mobile Smart Cards, Virtual Smart Cards, and YubiKeys).

Note:

Support for OP_2.0 Smart Cards, PKCS#11 Devices, and YubiKeys is enabled by default.
In the current version of ActivID CMS, support for Mobile Smart Cards has been deprecated.

Set a default device type.
Specify which device types can be enrolled in the User Portal. (By default, only OP_2.0 Smart Cards and PKCS#11 Devices are checked.)

Enabling support for Virtual Smart Cards and/or Mobile App Certificates does not automatically enable support for their enrollment on the User Portal. This means that an operator can set up his/her server (for example, adding new certificate authorities and defining policies) without the end user having access to the enrollment function in the User Portal.

For details on enabling support for devices, see Setting Parameters for Devices.

For details on virtual smart cards or mobile app certificates, see Managing Virtual Smart Cards or Managing Mobile App Certificates.

For details on issuing credentials (mobile app certificates) for mobile devices, refer to the ActivID CMS User online documentation.

Note: Enrollment of mobile app certificates is only available in the ActivID CMS User Portal.