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| About The Customer |
| A provider of microprocessor cards and point-of-sale terminals with a dominant presence in markets such as telecom, public telephony, finance, retail, transport, entertainment, healthcare, personal identification, information technology and public sector.
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| The Challenge |
| Supporting smart card versatility, functionalities and standards, and compatible authentication is the access client software – the bottom line of the customer’s smart card ecosystem. Prevalent versions of the software used graphic interface for networked authentication program (GINA) to implement authentication policies such as user logon, user logoff, password changing and SAS reading in Windows NT. Creating user authentication systems in Windows NT was burdensome, given that part of the user logon program is embedded in Windows NT. Also, DLL (dynamic linking library) and GINA are not UNIX features. T he customer turned to our team for GINA authentication development and support.
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| The Solution |
In just under three months, cryptographic service programs were in place. Through enriching GINA with pluggable authentication modules (PAM) , our solution brought flexibility and development- ease to the Windows NT authentication environment. PAM decided which network provider should be authenticated after referencing the tables in the registry, authentication modules, etc. VC++, UNIX, LINUX, plus all flavors of Windows imparted the right-fit technology groundwork.
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| The Benefits |
The customer had several benefits working with Mindteck.
They include:
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Smart card-use on multiple operating environments in manifold ways
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Log-ins to systems replaced the earlier code-sharing (via e-mail) for improved security
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Compatible authentication support
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Shortened development cycles resulting from the decoupling of GINA.dll, PAM.dll, and network provider modules |
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