Have you ever wanted to use your YubiKey to protect your Mac? Starting today, PIV-enabled YubiKeys can be used to log in to your Mac and your Keychain on macOS Sierra without complex configurations or software. Up until the release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) in July 2011, Apple included native support for login using smart cards. Since that feature was removed, users have found it more challenging to make smart cards work with Mac OS X. The release of marks a new beginning for smart card users, as Apple has taken a step towards support for PIV compatible smart cards without requiring any vendor software or drivers to be installed. At Yubico we want to make it easy for our customers to use best-of-breed security solutions like smart cards, so we added PIV smart card support to the YubiKey starting with the YubiKey NEO in Fall 2013. Today, PIV smart card support also is available on the YubiKey 4.
We’ve also enhanced the running on Sierra with a simple self-provisioning wizard that allows non-enterprise users to easily create macOS-compatible PIV credentials on any PIV-enabled YubiKey. Enterprises already know that PIV-enabled YubiKeys work great with Microsoft Windows environments, and now they can use the same YubiKey to login to. With Apple, smart cards are making a comeback, and we are making sure they do it with YubiKey style. To celebrate this significant milestone, Yubico is offering a limited-edition white YubiKey available only in the. If you have a Mac that only supports USB-C, you can use a to join in Apple’s smart card revival. That introduces YubiKey to macOS Sierra.
In addition, please review the DoD CAC Reader Specifications for more. The OS X Smartcard Services Package allows a Mac to read. To determine what card stock you have, look at the back of your CAC above the magnetic strip.
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- We'd like to support RDP access to servers on a government network, and require CAC authentication via a USB smartcard reader connected to the user's PC/Mac. We are aware that there are RDP clients and VNC viewers for the iOS and those would work if we could pass CAC auth data to the remote connection.
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