The certificates on your CAC can allow you to perform routine activities such as accessing OWA, signing documents, and viewing other PKI-protected information online.

For more information about your CAC and the information stored on it, visit.

In addition, please review the DoD CAC Reader Specifications for more information regarding the requirements for a card reader.

You may need additional middleware, depending on the operating system you use.

Please contact your CCSA for more information on the middleware requirements for your organization.

Military Certs Sierra Install The DoD

In order for your machine to recognize your CAC certificates and DoD websites as trusted, run the InstallRoot utility ( 32-bit, 64-bit or Non Administrator ) to install the DoD CA certificates on Microsoft operating systems.

Military Certs Sierra Mac OS Or Linux

If youre running an alternate operating system such as Mac OS or Linux, you can import certificates from the PKCS 7 bundle.

In addition, please review the DoD CAC Reader Specifications for more information regarding card reader requirements.

In order for your machine to recognize your CAC certificates and DoD websites as trusted, the installer will load the DoD CA certificates on OS X.

Please refer to this page for specific installation instructions.

This can make it appear that your certificates are issued by roots other than the DoD Root CA 2 and can prevent access to DoD websites.

To determine what card stock you have, look at the back of your CAC above the magnetic strip.

Most CACs are supported by the Smartcard Services package, however Oberthur ID One 128 v5.5 CACs are not.

Third party middleware is available that will support these CACS; two such options are Thursby Softwares PKard and Centrifys Express for Smart Card.

The CoolKey PKCS11 module provides access to the CAC and can be installed using Linux package management commands.

The CoolKey PKCS 11 module version 1.1.0 release 15 ships with RHEL 5.7 and above and is located at usrlibpkcs11libcoolkeypk11.so.

To configure Firefox to communicate with the CAC, follow these steps to install the DoD root and intermediate CA certificates into the Firefox NSS trust store, load the CoolKey library, and ensure the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is being used to perform revocation checking.

Now that your machine is properly configured, please login and visit our End Users page for more information on using the PKI certificates on your CAC.

Military Certs For Mac Os Sierra