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Hi,
I was looking at the code in https://github.com/jjkeijser/ppp/blob/eap-tls/pppd/eap-tls.c and realized I forgot to call ENGINE_ctrl_cmd(...) to setup "LOAD_CERT_CTRL". However, when I do this, the callback function is no longer being called during the mutual authentication handshake. I'm wondering if I have the parameter "cert_info.s_slot_cert_id" incorrectly configured. Here is what my code looks like: struct I tried manually using LOAD_CERT_CTRL in the openssl shell but I cannot seem to get it to work and cannot find any examples of how to use it. Is the syntax for LOAD_CERT_CTRL correct? I am using "LOAD_CERT_CTRL:<certificate Object ID>". OpenSSL> engine -vvvv -t dynamic -pre "SO_PATH:C:\\Users\\whipp\\junk4\\libp11-libp11-0.4.11\\src\\pkcs11.dll" -pre ID:pkcs11 -pre LIST_ADD:1 -pre LOAD -pre "MODULE_PATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\HID Global\ActivClient\\acpkcs211.dll" -pre PIN:123456 -pre FORCE_LOGIN -pre "LOAD_CERT_CTRL:a9bee4d72100c52f77c3fc288d2be01a34b5d44f91b3b7ea3d349b8a25752c45" I'm using the certificate object ID "a9bee4d72100c52f77c3fc288d2be01a34b5d44f91b3b7ea3d349b8a25752c45" for LOAD_CERT_CTRL. Is this right? (I also tried adding "0:" in front of it to indicate slot 0, but that did not work either. C:\Program Files\OpenSC Project\OpenSC\tools>pkcs11-tool --module="C:\Program Files\HID Global\ActivClient/acpkcs211.dll" -l -O Thanks, George On 2020-12-23 6:00 a.m., Jan Just Keijser wrote:
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Re: private key not available for client_cert_cb
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Hi,
On 05/01/21 07:39, George wrote:
this has little to do with OpenSSL at the moment and more with libp11 - perhaps someone more knowledgable on the libp11 mailing list can help you. I'd try to use -post LOAD_CERT_CTRL instead of '-pre', as you want this done after the engine has been loaded. The cert ID does look OK. Note that if you want to use the s_client command that you canNOT specify the certificate form '-certform engine' as the code does not grok that. HTH, JJK |
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Hi,
I have been trying to setup mutual authentication using a smart card but I can't seem to get the OpenSSL Engine to send a response back to the server containing client's certificate from the smart card. I'm using the following to configure the certificate and private key: ENGINE_ctrl_cmd(engine, "LOAD_CERT_CTRL", 0, &cert_info, NULL, 0); SSL_CTX_use_certificate(sslContext, cert_info.cert); EVP_PKEY* privateKey = ENGINE_load_private_key(engine, "2b2586c684d69b670c0a805edf514e720f2b757d8e2faa0b3a7ff23d1ccfc7ba", transfer_pin, &cb_data); SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey(sslContext, privateKey); (I have been using the code in https://github.com/jjkeijser/ppp/blob/eap-tls/pppd/eap-tls.c as a guide.) This seems be successful. However, when I start the mutual authentication with SSL_connect(ssl) , the mutual authentications handshake fails. I can see the server requesting the certificate from the client and the client sends back an ACK for this message. However, the client does not send the certificate to the server. I was looking through the OpenSSL code openssl-1.0.2u\ssl\ssl_rsa.c and noticed something interesting. The comment indicates that the flag RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK should be set for smart cards: static int ssl_set_pkey(CERT *c, EVP_PKEY *pkey) { . . . #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA /* * Don't check the public/private key, this is mostly for smart * cards. */ if ((pkey->type == EVP_PKEY_RSA) && (RSA_flags(pkey->pkey.rsa) & RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK)) ; else #endif . . . } However, it is not actually set when I use a debugger to inspect the flag. Does it need to be set? If so, how is this done? I could not find anything related to this in https://github.com/jjkeijser/ppp/blob/eap-tls/pppd/eap-tls.c Thanks, George On 2021-01-05 11:51 a.m., Jan Just Keijser wrote:
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RE: private key not available for client_cert_cb
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> From: openssl-users <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of George
> Sent: Friday, 8 January, 2021 14:35 > The comment indicates that the flag RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK should be set > for smart cards[...] > However, it is not actually set when I use a debugger to inspect the flag. > Does it need to be set? If so, how is this done? If memory serves, the PKCS#11 implementation invoked by the pkcs11 engine is supposed to set it. See for example this patch to OpenSC's pkcs11-helper library: https://github.com/OpenSC/pkcs11-helper/commit/5198bb1e557dfd4109bea41c086825bf6ebdd9f3 (That patch actually is to set a different flag, but it shows the code in question.) I know, that's probably not terribly helpful. If you do a web search for something like pkcs11 "RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK" you'll probably find a number of hits where other people ran into similar problems. Isn't PKCS#11 grand? If you're bored with all the interoperability problems of X.509, PKIX, and TLS, we have good news! -- Michael Wojcik |
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Hi,
I had a look at the pkcs11-helper and can see where the RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK is being set. It's using a session object called pkcs11h_openssl_session_t, which I do not see in the libp11 or openSC code. Right now I am using the "libp11" DLL (i.e. libp11-libp11-0.4.11\src\pkcs11.dll) with my PKCS11 smart card middleware DLL. Should I be using the OpenSC pkcs11 DLL instead of my middleware DLL if I am using libp1? Do you know if it is normal to see exceptions related to the PKCS11 function calls in the libp11 code? For example, I can see the following function generate an exception on C_GetSlotList(...) multiple times but it eventually is successful. Is this normal behaviour? int pkcs11_enumerate_slots(PKCS11_CTX *ctx, PKCS11_SLOT **slotp, unsigned int *countp) { . . . rv = cpriv->method->C_GetSlotList(FALSE, NULL_PTR, &nslots); . . . } Thanks, George On 2021-01-08 6:32 p.m., Michael Wojcik wrote: From: openssl-users [hidden email] On Behalf Of George Sent: Friday, 8 January, 2021 14:35The comment indicates that the flag RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK should be set for smart cards[...]However, it is not actually set when I use a debugger to inspect the flag. Does it need to be set? If so, how is this done?If memory serves, the PKCS#11 implementation invoked by the pkcs11 engine is supposed to set it. See for example this patch to OpenSC's pkcs11-helper library: https://github.com/OpenSC/pkcs11-helper/commit/5198bb1e557dfd4109bea41c086825bf6ebdd9f3 (That patch actually is to set a different flag, but it shows the code in question.) I know, that's probably not terribly helpful. If you do a web search for something like pkcs11 "RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK" you'll probably find a number of hits where other people ran into similar problems. Isn't PKCS#11 grand? If you're bored with all the interoperability problems of X.509, PKIX, and TLS, we have good news! -- Michael Wojcik |
RE: private key not available for client_cert_cb
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> From: openssl-users <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of George
> Sent: Sunday, 10 January, 2021 21:01 > Right now I am using the "libp11" DLL (i.e. libp11-libp11-0.4.11\src\pkcs11.dll) > with my PKCS11 smart card middleware DLL. Should I be using the OpenSC pkcs11 DLL > instead of my middleware DLL if I am using libp1? Honestly, I have no idea. It's been years since I worked with PKCS#11, and then I was using a single piece of test hardware. I got it working with OpenSSL using the OpenSC modules, but that may have been specific to my case. > Do you know if it is normal to see exceptions related to the PKCS11 function calls > in the libp11 code? For example, I can see the following function generate an > exception on C_GetSlotList(...) multiple times but it eventually is successful. > Is this normal behaviour? What sort of "exception"? A Windows exception? UNIX signal? C++ exception? My initial guess would be that this is a timing issue - maybe the device needs some time to become available, for example. But that's just a guess. Maybe someone with more experience with a variety of HSMs and PKCS#11 will weigh in. -- Michael Wojcik |
Re: private key not available for client_cert_cb
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Hi,
On 08/01/21 22:35, George wrote:
if you read through the code blob that Michael pointed you to, you will find that this flag needs to be set *under certain circumstances* when using smartcards. It has to do mostly with the situation where - private key is on the smart card - the public key/certificate is NOT on the smart card - you ask OpenSSL to verify the private key without explicitly providing a public key. I've never run into this issue, but then again, I have not tested very often the case where the certificate was not present on the HSM/smart card but the private key is. YMMV. As for using pksc11helper versus using libp11: that is just a matter of taste. I used the engine_pkcs11 + libp11 route for the eap-tls code , mostly because it was the first "working" set of tools I found at the time. You can also take the "pkcs11helper" route, which is what OpenVPN does (see https://github.com/openvpn). Both methods have pro's and con's. Do you run into problems if you DO not set the RSA_METHOD_FLAG_NO_CHECK flag? All that flag does is to stop OpenSSL from verifying that a public key/cert and private key match/belong together for RSA keys only; if your smartcard supports EC keys then this flag will do you no good. HTH, JJK |
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I found out what my problem is! I'm
running it in FIPS mode and this causes the PKCS11 engine to fail
during mutual authentication. I eventually traced the problem to
the following issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827535 It looks like there is a bug in libp11. Once I made the suggested workaround, it worked. My original code, which is based on https://github.com/jjkeijser/ppp/blob/eap-tls/pppd/eap-tls.c worked perfectly after I added in the libp11 fix. :) Thanks! George On 2021-01-11 11:01 a.m., Jan Just Keijser wrote:
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I'm running this in Windows 10 and when
I load the smart card middleware PKCS11 DLL, I see the exception:
Exception thrown at 0x773046D2 in GENCom.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: unsigned long at memory location 0x07FCFA00. During mutual authentication, I also see alot of other exceptions such as: Exception thrown at 0x773046D2 in GENCom.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: AI::Middleware::CMWException at memory location 0x032FD2D0. I traced them down to various PKCS11 calls on the card in libp11. e.g. the function call to C_GetSlotList(...) in the file p11_slot.c triggers an exception: int pkcs11_enumerate_slots(PKCS11_CTX *ctx, PKCS11_SLOT **slotp, unsigned int *countp) It is interesting to note that this function seems to get called multiple times and it eventually works. I do not fully understand how/why the code does that and if this is the design intent. The exceptions don't seem to have any effect on the functionality, but I still need to understand why they are occurring. It looks like someone else using a smart card has also encountered similar problems in Windows but there is no real answer as to why they are occurring: https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1254182/Smart-card-apis-throw-first-chance-exceptions-but Thanks, George On 2021-01-11 9:41 a.m., Michael Wojcik wrote: From: openssl-users [hidden email] On Behalf Of George Sent: Sunday, 10 January, 2021 21:01Right now I am using the "libp11" DLL (i.e. libp11-libp11-0.4.11\src\pkcs11.dll) with my PKCS11 smart card middleware DLL. Should I be using the OpenSC pkcs11 DLL instead of my middleware DLL if I am using libp1?Honestly, I have no idea. It's been years since I worked with PKCS#11, and then I was using a single piece of test hardware. I got it working with OpenSSL using the OpenSC modules, but that may have been specific to my case.Do you know if it is normal to see exceptions related to the PKCS11 function calls in the libp11 code? For example, I can see the following function generate an exception on C_GetSlotList(...) multiple times but it eventually is successful. Is this normal behaviour?What sort of "exception"? A Windows exception? UNIX signal? C++ exception? My initial guess would be that this is a timing issue - maybe the device needs some time to become available, for example. But that's just a guess. Maybe someone with more experience with a variety of HSMs and PKCS#11 will weigh in. -- Michael Wojcik |
RE: private key not available for client_cert_cb
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> From: openssl-users <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of George
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 00:18 > I'm running this in Windows 10 and when I load the smart card middleware > PKCS11 DLL, I see the exception: > Exception thrown at 0x773046D2 in GENCom.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: > unsigned long at memory location 0x07FCFA00. OK. If I were debugging libp11, it would be useful to know what the exception actually was, but as it is all I can say is that it seems to be a libp11 problem. As you noted further below: > It looks like someone else using a smart card has also encountered similar > problems in Windows but there is no real answer as to why they are occurring: > https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1254182/Smart-card-apis-throw-first-chance- > exceptions-but You'll probably have to just swallow the exceptions and retry until it works or your code decides to give up and return an error. Maybe one of the libp11 maintainers or someone else using the library will dig into it at some point. -- Michael Wojcik |
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