Re: [Opensc-devel] OpenSC at FOSDEM 2018

[Jakub J. <jj...@re...>]

On Sat, 2018-01-06 at 12:11 +0100, NdK wrote:
> Il 05/01/2018 19:01, Bernd Eckenfels ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> > Did you try scdaemon (scenario 1 with SCd-PKCS11 should work with
> > Firefox)
> > https://github.com/sektioneins/scd-pkcs11/blob/master/README.md
> 
> IIUC that's for GPG to use OpenSC-managed cards.
> 
> Practical example. I have a MyEID cards where I load a couple of keys
> for web auth (say work portal and CAcert), a key for mail signing
> (X509), a key for SSH access and the 3 GPG keys (DEC, SIG, AUT, and
> possibly the master C key too).
> That's what I could do before problems started (I last tested quite
> some
> time ago, so it might a bit fuzzy). IIRC, if I had Firefox open I
> couldn't access any key from other apps (including Thunderbird).
> If I closed FF, then I could sign/decrypt mails in Thunderbird, but
> either with X509 or GPG (Enigmail). And to use SSH I had to close TB,
> too.

Hello Diego,
I am not using web authentication using PKCS#11, but (for the sake of
correct outcomes here) I got to test it today and it works as expected
without any concurrent issues (until you let the GnuPG's scdaemon into
the round) with all the cards I have around, but mostly with PIV on
yubikey.

I believe you should give it a try again. You might be pleasantly
surprised (unless the MyEID cards have some different issues than my
cards).

The scdaemon could be replaced with a tool that does not require
exclusive access and talks PKCS#11, such as gnupg-pkcs11-scd [1] and
then we should be over these problems.

> Guess what's the "normal user" reaction? "fsck smartcards".

Yes, some of the configuration steps should be more explicit
(disconnect = leave), and we should support both applets on the smart
card (PIV, OpenPGP) on yubikey [2] to make it working setup for general
users. But I would not say it is impossible nor that we are far.

[1] http://gnupg-pkcs11.sourceforge.net/index.html
[2] https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/962

Thanks for inputs and regards,
-- 
Jakub Jelen
Software Engineer
Security Technologies
Red Hat, Inc.