Alison Wizard

Description

Alison Wizard is a web assistant that facilitates the deployment of Alison Desktop on the end users' stations, determines if all the necessary components are correctly installed, and suggests installation or update if necessary.

It detects the minimum conditions under which it should be performed and suggests the necessary corrective steps.

Among the tasks performed we can mention:

• Execute the download of its components

• Facilitate the correct installation of the components

• Validate its correct installation by signing a test transaction (if the user has a certificate)

Alison Desktop is used to generate the key pair, certificate installation, and digital signature operations for the following browser: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari.

Alison Desktop can recognize certificates installed in various secure repositories like Microsoft CSP, Firefox NSS, PKCS # 11 devices, Smartcards, eTokens, and multiple platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux).

Advantages and benefits

• Alison Wizard simplifies the download of the required components to operate and enable them on the browser properly.

• Users will have the same user experience, no matter which browser is using.

• End-user can test the correct installation of the certificate, and even check if the certificate is valid or revoked.

Installation

Follow this instruction to install a docker instance of the product.

Configuration

You can customize your installation by changing some variables.

Related products

Alison Desktop

You can obtain the current version of Alison Desktop from ACME Alison Wizard site.

Debbie

Debbie is used to validating certificates and signatures.

Step 1: Detect Alison-Desktop

Open

This is Alison Wizard's first step. The target is to verify if Alison Desktop is installed on the end-user machine.

If not detected, downloads the appropriate installer for the operating system in use. End-user has to install it and run Alison-Desktop to allow Alison Wizard to continue.

A new icon will appear on the tray to access additional features.

Step 2: Integrate

Verify the correct communication between the browser and Alison Desktop. If necessary, the process will prompt the end-user to install additional components.

If communication between the browser in use and Alison Desktop is enabled, Alison Wizard will jump to the third step.

Integration is shared between different browsers, like Internet Explorer and Chrome, but it's recommended to run the wizard on each browser that the end-user has. Alison Wizard is a diagnostic tool that facilitates end-user error detection and suggests a solution.

Step 3: Test user certificate

Once all the Alison components are installed on the end-user machine, Wizard allows the end-user to validate the correct operation of Alison Desktop through a test signature operation.

It requires at least one certificate installed on some of the enabled Keystore repositories.

If no certificate is detected, the end-user will see a notice.