Is Gemalto Web Signer for NatWest safe?
Gemalto Web Signer for NatWest relays a smart-card PIN and payment documents to a local signing app on scoped Bacs and payment-portal pages.
On banking and payment-network sites (Bacs, Vocalink, IdenTrust, and related payment-portal domains), the extension reads the PIN typed into its signing dialog and the document data to be signed, then forwards them over a native messaging connection to com.gemalto.esignerwe, a locally installed Thales/Gemalto application. That application performs the smart-card (PKCS#11) signing on the user's machine and returns the signature to the page; the data does not leave the local device.
Who publishes itThales DIS - 3 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Thales DIS - 3 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
3 other listings published from this account, 4k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 17 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.4.89. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Read information about your displays
system.display
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Gemalto Web Signer for NatWest contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- com.gemalto.esignerwe (local native messaging host)
Gemalto Web Signer for NatWest sends data to com.gemalto.esignerwe (local native messaging host). Named as a recipient by 1 other extensions we have analyzed.