Hardware Cryptography

Certificate Services supports hardware-related cryptography, such as issuing certificates stored on smart cards. The enterprise certification authority (CA) supports the issuance of smart card certificates for domain logon on the operating system. Additionally, both the enterprise CA and stand-alone CA support issuance of other types of smart card certificates.

For details, see the product documentation. For developer information about smart cards, see Smart Card Authentication. For information about the control that allows an administrator to request smart card certificates on behalf of users, see Smart Card Enrollment Control.