EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

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EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by dominic.davies@gmail.com » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:19 pm

Hi. Please can you confirm whether the EPO Smart Card Drivers will work with Apple MacBooks with the Apple Silicon ARM based CPUs, running MacOS 11.0 Big Sur or later. These computers do have not Intel compatible x86 chips and it isn't clear whether the cryptovision sc/interface 7.3.2 Cryptographic software will still run using the x86 emulation layer offered by MacOS 11.0.

Thank you.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by dominic.davies@gmail.com » Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:01 pm

After testing, it appears that the current drivers DO NOT support Apple's newest Apple Silicon Macs.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by Martinadu » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:46 pm

Please contact Epo support for a more recent software


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by dominic.davies@gmail.com » Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:27 pm

For those that may be interested, the solution identified with the IT support was to install a pre-Apple Silicon version of Firefox and use the latest drivers.

i.e.
Install cryptovision sc/interface 8.0 drivers on Big Sur.
Download and install the old Firefox v83.
Disable automatic updates on Firefox.
Then install the Gemalto PC Twin Reader module in Firefox in the usual way.

This works.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by mktanaka » Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:35 pm

I have used Firefox v83 with Macbook Air M1 and Mac OS Big Sur.
However, after upgraded to Monterey, Firefox freezes and I have to "Force Quit".
Tried Firefox v84, v93 and even reinstall v83. V83 continues freezing and on v84 and v93 the smart card does not work (error message: "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied").

Is there anyone with the same problem? Was it possible to solve it?


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by dominic.davies@gmail.com » Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:21 pm

Mktanaka,

I am running Firefox v83 on M1 Monterey without any problems, so it is possible. Try starting Firefox v83 in safe mode to ensure it is not an extension that is making it crash. I don't expect newer versions of Firefox to work until new cryptovision drivers arrive.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by Martinadu » Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:31 pm

We are pleased to announce that version 8.0.12 of cryptovision has now been released to our download page. This version is strongly recommended for users, where all kind or issues are taking place.
We have used it multiple times to resolve problems in Windows, Macintosh and even Linux/Ubuntu.

Secondly updated installation instructions have also been uploaded as well.

In Windows, it will allow your card to be read even without configuring Firefox.
In Macintosh, it will support up to the latest MacOS 12 (Monterrey) and even the M1 (with latest Firefox)


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by Andrew Stentiford » Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:59 pm

Hi Martinadu,

Can you post a link to the latest Cryptovision software 8.0.12 which you refer to. The software link provided by the EPO support team appears to link to the 8.0 version https://www.epo.org/applying/online-ser ... ation.html

The current version 8.0 is not working with M2 Apple Silicon MacBooks.

Thanks in advance.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by Andrew Stentiford » Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:27 am

Just to follow up I managed to get this working using scinterface-8.0.12.708-MacOSX-11_4.pkg and following the updated instructions on the most recent version of Firefox. The issue is that the mac zip file has 3 different .dmg files. Use scInterface-8.0.12.708-MacOSX-11_4.dmg for M1 - M2.


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Re: EPO Smart Card Drivers on M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks

Post by Martinadu » Thu Dec 08, 2022 11:17 am

Andrew Stentiford wrote:
Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:59 pm
Hi Martinadu,

Can you post a link to the latest Cryptovision software 8.0.12 which you refer to. The software link provided by the EPO support team appears to link to the 8.0 version https://www.epo.org/applying/online-ser ... ation.html

The current version 8.0 is not working with M2 Apple Silicon MacBooks.

Thanks in advance.
The version on our site is the 8.0.12 .
If still having a problem, please contact our support


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