2.12 Unlocking smart cards that have a PIV applet

For cards that include a PIV applet (that is, PIV cards, and devices such as the YubiKey tokens that use PIV technology in a USB form factor) MyID provides the MyID Card utility, which allows a user to carry out a remote challenge/response unlock operation, and to change the user PIN.

For information on using the MyID Card Utility, see the Remote PIN Management utility for PIV cards section in the Operator's Guide.

MyID also provides an unlock credential provider that allows a user to unlock their PIV-based device from the Windows logon screen. This provides the same functionality as the MyID Card Utility for remotely unlocking cards.

For details of installing and configuring the unlock credential provider, see the Installing the unlock credential provider section in the Installation and Configuration Guide.

For details of using the unlock credential provider to unlock a PIV card, see the Unlock credential provider section in the Operator's Guide.

See the interoperability section of each chapter in this document for details of which devices support the MyID Card Utility and the unlock credential provider.