This is a very interesting topic that has long since been ignored. The best site regarding anything related to Common Access Cards (CAC) on personal computers is www.militarycac.com. The site is one of the most professional and complete resources of its kind for anyone working in the government from a personal computer.
The biggest issues are how to pull the certificates from the CAC card onto an iOS in a manner that is deemed 'secure'. Right now, USB is the only viable way to do this with a CAC reader on a personal computer. Blackberry has the only wireless option with a Bluetooth CAC reader. To date, there is not Bluetooth CAC reader for the iOS. If there was, you would still have to write an app to process the certificates and make them available for a mail client or safari. Mac OS X has 'Keychain Access', a utility that has a built in ability to do the work for you. PC's have to use middleware, such as Active Client. Long road to a small house, this has been discussed several times with no replies or serious takers on the Apple side. The government does have a contract with Blackberry utilizing CAC / PKI support; not sure if that has anything to do with the holdup for iOS support.
Also, a similar thread has been discussed on this site, see the following link:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12244323
The biggest issues are how to pull the certificates from the CAC card onto an iOS in a manner that is deemed 'secure'. Right now, USB is the only viable way to do this with a CAC reader on a personal computer. Blackberry has the only wireless option with a Bluetooth CAC reader. To date, there is not Bluetooth CAC reader for the iOS. If there was, you would still have to write an app to process the certificates and make them available for a mail client or safari. Mac OS X has 'Keychain Access', a utility that has a built in ability to do the work for you. PC's have to use middleware, such as Active Client. Long road to a small house, this has been discussed several times with no replies or serious takers on the Apple side. The government does have a contract with Blackberry utilizing CAC / PKI support; not sure if that has anything to do with the holdup for iOS support.
Also, a similar thread has been discussed on this site, see the following link:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12244323
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