Nexus smart card middleware (PD6) is an evolution and optimization of previous generations of Personal Desktop Client. In this iteration the middleware comes completely without a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and is instead an integral part of Smart ID Desktop App. As before the smart card middleware integrates smart cards and security tokens and provides your users with intuitive two-factor authentication (2FA), digital signing, and email encryption.

Nexus smart card middleware is a multi-platform integral part of Smart ID Desktop App 1.2 or later for macOS. The middleware allows you to use smart cards and soft tokens for authentication/signing from standard applications like browsers and email clients but also from third party applications using standardized APIs such as CryptoTokenKit (CTK) on and PKCS#11.

Key features

• macOS logon

• Email encryption

• Browser TLS client certificate authentication

• Browser signing and authentication using Smart ID Desktop App plugout technology

• Third party applications using PKCS#11 interface

• CryptoTokenKit extension

Plugout browser integration

Personal Desktop enables signing/authentication in web browsers without plugins using the plugout technology where Smart ID Desktop App is triggered from the browser page. Hermod is the server API used to trigger the web browser signing and the server API is identical whether you will sign/authenticate using Smart ID Desktop App or authenticate out-of-band using a mobile device.

See Plugout web browser integration for more detailed descriptions.