This article describes an available hotfix that adds support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-73-3 specification in Windows 7. This hotfix improves features for smart card–related Plug and Play and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) standards from the NIST. This hotfix supports the Key History object that is described in section 3.2.7 of the NIST SP 800-73-3 Part1 specification. The Key History object does not support the following in this hotfix:
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- Discontinued keys that have off-card certificates.
- Key archival by using the smart card. Therefore, the following operations are not available:
- Imports of key material to a discontinued key container.
- Imports of certificates for a key in a discontinued key container.
- Requests for the card to generate a key pair for a discontinued key container.
- Changes to the Key History object
Notes
- Currently, Windows 7 only supports the capabilities of NIST SP 800-73-2 for PIV smart cards.
- According to NIST SP 800-73-3 Part1, the container name changes of a Key Management key is archived to a discontinued container. If a smart card was previously used on a computer, the smart card must be inserted into the computer before the smart card tries to use the key. This allows for the computer to recognize the new container name and find the certificate. If you do not insert the smart card, you will be unable to successfully select the certificate from a selection dialog box.