Personal Identity Verification (PIV) is a card-based authentication standard. This type of authentication is widely supported across available web browsers. At the least, it is supported in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Arc, and SigmaOS. Support for this standard will allow Orion users to access secure websites that use PIV for authentication.
This feature would negotiate credentials between Orion and certain secure websites. The details would be largely transparent to the user.
A typical example involves a card reader attached to the computer with a PIV card inserted into the reader. When a user visits a site that uses PIV for authentication and selects the sign in option, the browser provides the appropriate credentials to the website in order to allow access.
At this time, visiting a site of this type results in a message stating, "Smartcard authentication failed. No client certificate in the request."
There are PIV specifications on the NIST site.
