About Mobile Smart Cards

The HID Crescendo Mobile application creates a mobile smart card on the user’s device that can be used with a Windows Mini Driver, with ActivClient, and with other PIV-compliant middleware. The mobile smart card is protected by a PIN, offering a two-factor authentication model.

A mobile smart card provides the same standard smart card operations, such as logging on to Windows or sending encrypted emails, as a physical smart card. It is accessible through a smart card reader using NFC (Android devices only), or using Bluetooth.

Important: To connect a mobile smart card using Bluetooth, the HID Bluetooth Virtual Reader must be installed on the user’s machine. This reader is available on the HID Global Driver Download site as a .zip file containing the drivers for both iOS and Android devices.