Hi.

I have a bunch of other code changes waiting to be sent for comments/ 
commiting before beginning of january but I've been pre-occupied with  
my 1st son who arrived (a bit early) a week ago, so the work has to  
wait a bit yet there is a deadline of 2nd of January.

The list-token thing of course should be reduced to -T only, which  
affects the related C_GetSlotList parameter (for all calls)

m.


On 17.12.2008, at 22:05, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008 20:20:17 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev:
>> Windows (32bit, 64bit) build is OK.
>>
>> As we discussed in the mailing list, I don't like the new addition
>> martin added to pkcs11-tool, adding new standalone option
>> --list-token-slots instead of modifier to --list-slots... No blocker,
>> but change in interface of tools should be considered as static.
>
> I have no opinion on this. Whatever code looks cleaner might be
> a nice way to decide this?
>
>> And there is the data object issue, which I think is a major  
>> security issue
>
> 1.) can someone check all profiles if this affects all cards?
> 2.) is this change in flex.profile good enought to fix new  
> cryptoflex cards?
> 3.) is there a way we can fix old cryptoflex cards?
>
> if 1) is not true, we need to fix the other cards as well.
> it would be perfect if we could create a test procedure, and
> ask each card maintainer to verify that. (e.g. initialize, store
> data object with --private, find out the filename, use opensc-explorer
> to read the card without entering a pin -> if it works, there is a  
> problem).
>
> if that is the correct test procedure, we can use it to check 2.).
>
> I have no clue about 3.). maybe a new option for some tool and a few  
> lines
> of code to read the ACL, and tell is "wrong, insecure", then ask for  
> the PIN,
> verify it, and change the ACL. well in theory, don't know such code  
> well...
>
> also I wonder: is there any reason why the old situation is sane?
> I would think if there is a pin, all data on every card is write- 
> protected
> by that pin (the only question is: user pin or SO pin?). and read  
> should
> be either public (for public object) or private (for private objects).
>
> hmm, wait... what is the use for the 4600 directory? is it used for  
> public
> and private data objects, or for private data objects only? the later
> would be ok - an embarrassing security bug, but easy to fix.  but if
> we use the same directory for both types of data objects we have a  
> problem:
> that won't work with directory ACL only.
>
> if the later:
> a) can we change the system and have two separate directories?
> that would be nice long term, but make it hard or impossible to
> fix the situation for existing cards.
> b) if we need to store those objects in the same directory,
> but our implementation allows only directory level ACLs
> (if we only used them so far, a change would affect each driver),
> then we should dodge the bullet for now, and disable private
> data objects (both in tools and pkcs#11), till we can properly
> implement them.
>
> in any case, we need to know what our situation exactly is.
> I don't know cryptoflex well, don't know pkcs#15 well,
> have no clue about the other drivers (only minor clue about
> cardos and nothing else), don't know enough about opensc internals.
> so please everyone help in getting a clear description about the
> situation.
>
> then we should
> - try to fix it for new cards
> - try to fix old cards with a tool if it is possible
> - create a patch containing these changes
> - write a security advisory with our analysis of the situations
>   and the fixes
> - find people to proofread it and spell check it
> - create a new release
> - create new windows build and sca releases
> - publish the security advisory pointing to the new release and the  
> patch
> - contact distributions, so they can update the binary packages for  
> linux
>
> did I forget something? any suggestions for a different procedure?
>
> ugh. some work ahead. lots of work if we want to get this done before
> xmas. ouch.
>
> is my analysis and plan ok? as you can see, I need a lot of help  
> with code
> and analysis of our situation and the changes needed. I can try to  
> help
> by testing some cards I have and if someone posts the APDUs needed  
> to fix
> it, I can try writing some code doing that (but I have no clue about  
> our
> pin handling stuff, hope that isn't too hard). also I can create a  
> release
> and test etc. can you help with some of the items, so we can work  
> together
> to fix it?
>
> thanks for your help everyone!
>
> Regards, Andreas
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