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Applications I.CA SecureStore

Applications I.CA SecureStore is a separate application in two versions, for Windows and OS X. The application environment has the following basic functions:

generating a key pair up to 2048 bits on the card while creating the appropriate certificate request of the selected type (commercial, qualified),
importing a issued certificate to a card - saves the issued DER certificate on a card to the appropriate key pair store,
import communication partner certificates and root certificates of supported certification authorities,
work with certificates stored on a smart card and manage storage on the card - including deleting and importing certificates,
PIN management - change of PIN (new PIN can be set via old PIN), PIN unblocking (further attempts to enter PIN can be obtained by entering PUK),
Card space usage monitoring (card lifetime is not checked by the app),
Usage of free space on the card to store any files. Free space storage can be selected in two variants:
- unsecured, freely accessible,
- Secured, which is only accessible after entering the PIN for this storage. This repository is suitable eg for password management.

Features only available in Windows environment:

Certificate Registration to Windows - Installs the certificate on Windows repositories so that it can be accessed by Windows-based certificate services
the storage name used for Windows SmartCard Logon.

Software Modules for Windows:

SecureStore CSP (Crypto Service Provider) - a card-enabled component in MS Explorer, MS Outlook and other Windows-based applications that use the standard CryptoAPI interface,
SecureStore PKCS11 - a card-enabled component in Mozilla Firefox applications on the Windows platform that uses Cryptoki,
I.CA SecureStore - Windows card management application.

Software Modules for OS X:

SecureStore PKCS11 - a card-enabled component in Mozilla Firefox OS X applications that use Cryptoki,
I.CA SecureStore - OS X card management application.