Smartcard connect (Registry keys?)

Care Identity Service (CIS)
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Hi All!

bit of a longshot and apologies if this isn’t the appropriate forum for this but has anyone used the new NHS Smartcard Connect client and configured registry keys with this?

I want to configure sessionlockpersistence_enabled to true for smartcard authentication on our VDI environment and I know the identity agent had some registry keys you could configure and I cannot for the life of me get this working with the new client.

NHS Identity Agent configuration and registry settings - NHS England Digital

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Smartcard connect doesn’t support session persistence, it doesn’t have the concept of smartcard pull or presence detection so not applicable. The card can be removed once authenticated

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Thank you for your response! That’s interesting, When I try to authenticate to ESR as a test, it requests my pin upon loading the webpage, when I remove my card and try to re-access this fails as it prompts me for my card once more.

I’m assuming it should “work out of the box” so to speak?

Any help is massively appreciated.

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SmartCard Connect requires you PIN on every authentication unlike the legacy implementation. See https://digital.nhs.uk/services/care-identity-service/applications-and-services/technical-services/nhs-smartcard-connect