On 02/25/2014 01:47 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
Hi,
here is a draft of the PKCS#11 design:
<http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/PKCS11_in_LDAP>.
On 24.2.2014 13:11, Ludwig Krispenz wrote:
Hi,
here is a draft to start discussion. Lt me know if it is the right
direction and what you're missing.
https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/wiki/BIND9/Design/pkcs11Schema
IMO we don't need attribute types for key components
(ipaPkcs11publicExponent, ipaPkcs11modulus, ipaPkcs11privateExponent,
ipaPkcs11prime1, ipaPkcs11prime2) at all. As I said before, I don't
think we need such granularity in LDAP and it would limit us to RSA
only (unless we add attribute types for every other key type). We can
store both private keys and public keys in single attribute as a DER
blob (I would name the attributes ipaPkcs11privateKeyValue instead of
ipaPkcs8privateKey for private keys, ipaPkcs11publicKeyValue for
public keys, there already is ipaPkcs11certificateValue for
certificates).
ok for me, if everybody agrees.
OpenDNSSEC uses CKA_VERIFY, CKA_ENCRYPT, CKA_WRAP, CKA_SIGN,
CKA_DECRYPT, CKA_UNWRAP, CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_PRIVATE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE
when generating new key pairs, and the PKCS#11 spec says that keys
generated on a token should have CKA_LOCAL and CKA_KEY_GEN_MECHANISM
set, so I think we should have attribute types for all of them.
ok.
Ludwig
On 02/18/2014 03:17 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
Hi,
On 18.2.2014 14:02, Ludwig Krispenz wrote:
Hi,
yesterday jan asked me about the status of the schema and if it
would be
ready for certificate storage an dthat puzzled me a bit and showed
that
I still do not really understand what you want to store in LDAP.
Two me there are two very different approaches.
1] LDAP as store for high level objects like certs and keys
For certs and related stuff there is rfc4523 and the schema for ldif
exists. For keys we would decide if the key is stored in PKCS#8 format
or as bind keypairs and define a key attribute and that's it. we could
export keys with softhsm, (eventually convert them) and add to
ldap, in
the long term solution the PKCS#11 replacemnt would need to manage
these
high level objects
I think RFC 4523 is not the right schema in this case, as it is suited
for PKIs rather than generic cryptographic data storage. For example,
RFC 4523 distinguishes between CA and end entity certificates, but in
PKCS#11 there are just certificates without any semantics attached to
them.
2] low level replacement for eg the sqlite3 database in softhsm.
That's what I sometimes get the impression what is wanted. SoftHsm has
one component Softdatabase with an API, which more or less passes sets
of attributes (attributes defined by PKCS#11) and then stores it as
records in sql where each record has a keytype and opaque blob of
data.
If that is what is wanted the decision would be how fingrained the
pkcs
objects/attribute types would have to be mapped to ldap: one ldap
attribute for each possible attribute type ?
One-to-one mapping of attributes from PKCS#11 to LDAP would be the
most straightforward way of doing this, but I think we can do some
optimization for our needs. For example, like you said above, we can
use a single attribute containing PKCS#8 encoded private key rather
than using one attribute per private key component.
I don't think we need an LDAP attribute for every possible PKCS#11
attribute, ATM it would be sufficient to have just these attributes
necessary to represent private key, public key and certificate objects.
So, I would say it should be something between high-level and
low-level.
Honza
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