What Should I Push On?

Henry B. Hotz hotz at jpl.nasa.gov
Sat May 5 13:58:01 EDT 2012


Thanks for the info.  I may have issues to deal with after this one.  *sigh*

Since the specific problem shows with a PKCS12 credential as well, I'm thinking I should get a real RedHat 6.2 instance to test with first.

On May 4, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:

> On 5/4/2012 8:57 AM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/3/2012 11:18 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2012 08:52 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>>>> [5571] 1336088306.8828: Selected etype info: etype aes256-cts, salt "SC.JPL.NASA.GOVhotz", params "
>>>> CoolKey PIN:
>>>> [5571] 1336088310.707006: Preauth module pkinit (16) (flags=1) returned: 12/Cannot allocate memory
>>>> [5571] 1336088310.708361: Preauth module pkinit (15) (flags=1) returned: 12/Cannot allocate memory
>>> 
>>> That almost certainly indicates a bug--either in our code, the
>>> Scientific Linux packaging of it, or the PKCS11 library invoked for the
>>> PIV card.
>> 
>> 
>> What version of coolkey are you running? In the past coolkey only supported
>> the CAC cards. DOD has been moving to dual CAC and PIV cards. NASA cards may
>> be PIV only, thus may not work with some versions of coolkey.
>> 
>> To test if it is a PKCS#11 issue, OpenSC has a pkcs11-spy module
>> that could be used to trace the PKCS#11 calls and results.
>> 
>> export PKCS11SPY=/usr/lib64/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so
>> kinit -X X509_user_identity=PKCS11:/path/to/pkcs11-spy.so hotz at SC.JPL.NASA.GOV
>> 
>> OpenSC also has PKCS#11 and supports PIV.
>> 
> 
> I got coolkey-1.1.0-19 to build on Solaris 10 in 32 bit mode. (although
> some of the patches from the rpm to the 1.1.0 source did
> not apply cleanly and I have to make a minor modification for Solaris.)
> 
> Using krb5-1.10.1 and the OpenSC pkcs11spy and a PIV card,
> I can see it reads the certificates, prompted for PIN and did a C_Sign operation
> but coolkey only returns 122 bytes rather then 128 bytes as expected for the signature.
> 
> I then get a kinit: Message stream modified while getting initial credentials.
> 
> So it looks like there are some problems in the coolkey code in processing the
> returned signature.
> 
> Using the same card, with krb5-1.10.1 and OpenSC pkcs11 works.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, I think the next step is to grab the SRPM for krb5 and
>>> either (a) build with debugging symbols (and without optimization) and
>>> start poking around in gdb, or (b) build with the PKINIT debugging
>>> defines turned on and collect more information.  Either is pretty
>>> time-consuming.
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>> 
> 
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> 
> Douglas E. Engert  <DEEngert at anl.gov>
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