[As suggested by Will, this is a repost,
with the addition of crypto-discuss at opensolaris.org]
Sun appears to be headed down the path of using /usr/lib/libpkcs11.so
with Kerberos PKINIT as well as pam_pkcs11.so, and it was said
opensc-pkcs11.so works with libpkcs11. So I wanted to try this for
myself.
I obtained a elfsign certificate from Sun and signed the opensc-pkcs11.so
and installed it using cryptoadm install provider=..../opensc-pkcs11.so
Using the opensc-0.11.6 and pcscd I have run into two related problems,
and a problem where sshd (and dtlogin) will not run if the opensc-pkcs11.so
is listed as a provider.
Sun appears to expect C_GetMechaismList to return a list if there is a slot
present, even if there is no token present. See the attached cryptoadmin.txt
I think this is a bug in Sun's code. PKCS#11 2.01 and 2.20 say:
"C_GetMechanismList is used to obtain a list of mechanism
types supported by a token."
If there is no token they should not ask for a list of mechanisms. Note
that crytpoadm shows that there is no token present in the slot.
The above test was run with the following patch installed.
OpenSC will show a slot is present if there is a reader, but
will segfault if C_GetMechanismList is called for an unused
virtual slot. I submitted to OpenSC ticket number #181
the attached slot.null.txt is a gdb trace of the Sun cryptoadm
calling C_GetMechanisnList for the first of the virtual slots.
There is a card in the reader using the first 4 slots.
Note that sc_pkcs11_get_mechanism_list is called with p11card=0x0.
Ticket #181 gets around this.
I have not tracked down the sshd and login problems yet.
I am assuming that is related to no mechanism list.
Note that sshd should not be using the console user's
smartcard for any crypto!
--
Douglas E. Engert <DEEngert at anl.gov>
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, Illinois 60439
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