Aloaha Card Connector FAQ

What is the Aloaha Cardconnector?

The Aloaha Cardconnector provides windows applications access to a variety of smart cards. For example German Health Professional Card (HBA), German Health Insurance Card (eGK), Belgium e-ID (Belpic), Italian Infocamere and Actalis cards, Swiss GS1, and lots of more cards.
More supported cards can be found on this website under Support -> Smart Cards

My card is not supported. What can I do?

Just contact our support. It is always a pleasure to support new cards!

Which applications are supported?

All applications which access smart cards via CSP (Crypto Service Provider)
or PKCS #11 module are supported by Aloaha. For example Outlook, Internet Explorer, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Firefox, Winword, Adobe and more.

Should I activate the autoremove option in Aloaha?

It depends if you would like to keep the references to a private key in your local certificate store even if you remove the card. If lots of different cards and/or reader are used on one system it is suggested to activate autoremove to increase performance.

Why do I have the option Configure Signature?

Here you can configure the default certificate or reader used when signing something with the Aloaha PDF Tools or if you right click on a file and choose create XXX Signature/Envelope

Is it possible to use Aloaha to decrypt a certificate encrypted PDF?

Yes, that is possible. Unlike other CPS Aloaha works also in Adobe 7 and 8.

Is it possible to use Aloaha to encrypt the NTFS Filesystem?

NTFS Encryption is supported by Aloaha. But it should be noted that the certificates used require special certificate and enhanced certificate attributes.

Is it possible to disable the shell extension?

Yes, you need to unregister the file AloahaCtxMenu.dll. To do so please go into the aloaha subdirectory of the common program files. There you call regsvr32 /u AloahaCtxMenu.dll.

Now the explorer needs to be restarted. The easiest way is to relogin to the machine.

Is it possible to hide the blue popup screens?

Yes, you need to create a registry key HKLM\Software\Aloaha\DisableBanner with value 1.

How can I hide the yellow system tray icon?

You need to create a simple VBS script to show or hide the icon:

dim csp

set csp = createobject("AloahaCertInstaller.certserv")

call csp.remove_tray
msgbox "wait"
call csp.add_tray

set csp = nothing

Is it possible to instruct Aloaha to ignore a specific card reader?

Yes, you need to edit the file ReaderIni.ini.

The entry IgnoreReader will instruct Aloaha to ignore that card reader!

[SCM Microsystems Inc. SPRx32 USB Smart Card Reader 0]
IgnoreReader=1

Is it possible to avoid the PIN entry?

It is not possible to deactivate the PIN protection of a smartcard. But Aloaha supports the usage of contactless (RFID/Mifare) PIN Token!