Re: Transparent login to mobile application by logging in to WiFi hot

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Well, *if* a certificate were stored in the certificate store, then you
could use the Crypto API calls to do various things with it (OpenNETCF's
Smart Device Framework has a cryptography wrapper that you could use).
However, I don't think that it's true that the server certificate, which is
sent to the device to *validate the server* is stored anywhere. Nor, I
think, are the cryptography items that are used to encrypt the
communications channel with the server stored anywhere.

Back up and give us the various scenarios that you have to handle. Here's
the only one we know about from your description:

1. When a secure, PEAP, connection is made to an access point, the
application should take that as a sign that the user has the right identity
and, therefore, the application should not require a second login.

Is that correct? So, what are the other cases? When the device is not
authenticated with the AP, you want to ask the user to log in? How do you
validate those credentials?

Paul T.

"SnS" <SnS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am working on a windows mobile application which has to login to a
corporate network after the user has successfully logged into a 802.1x
PEAP
enabled Wifi hotspot provided by the Service provider.

I dont want the user to type the username pwd again to login to the app
after he has logged in to the hotspot.

How to achieve this from a mobile app?

As per my understanding, once the user successfully logs in to the WiFi
hotspot, the device would recieve a digital certificate which would be
stored
in the mobile device's cert store. The app has to retrieve the certificate
from the app store and attach it to the login request.

Is it possible to retrieve a secure signed digital certificate from the
device? If so, how to do that?

Is there anything else to be done apart from this


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