In T6218#163787, @gouttegd wrote:

Does the latest Scute require an instance of gpg-agent and/or scdaemon running to work?

Yes. Scute relies on those to interact with the token.

Does the latest Scute require an instance of gpg-agent and/or scdaemon running to work?

Merged the changes in t6002 branch into master.

That sounds quite cool.

Actually we developed PIV support to allow the use of PIV X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys with Yubikeys. In fact, GnuPG is able to switch between the Yubikey PIV and OpenPGP applications on-the-fly while keeping their PIN verification states.

I was indeed using version 1.5.0 for testing, but I wish to clarify the purpose of Scute in my setup before proceeding.

Which version of Scute are you using?

Using Scute as a drop-in replacement doesn't currently work. Perhaps my config needs more adjustments than just:

module = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/scute/scute.so

Yes, I meant to use Scute as pkcsc11 module for pam_pkcs11. Thanks for explaining more verbosely what I meant.

I think Werner may have confused pam_pkcs11 with gnupg-pkcs11-scd. :)

I'm not sure what you mean with using Scute as PKCS#11 provider instead of pam_pkcs11, as pam_pkcs11 is not a provider but a user of PKCS#11

There is a reason why pcsc-shared is not the default ;-). Please try using Scute (best the t6002 branch until it has been merged) as pkcs#11 provider instead of pam_pkcs11. And you should of course use the stable version of GnuPG and not the LTS (2.2).

A better solution could always be found later

I tested with a self-signed one.

Did you test with a self-signed cert? I ran into the problem that the selection only showed the root certificate, the signing works using the leaf cert, but the root cert was put into the signature. Changing Scute to only return the leaf certificate made it work but verification failed.

I can successfully sign with LibreOffice Writer (using Brainpool with Yubikey). I need to do:

• Tools
  • Optoins
    • LibreOffice - Security - Certificate Path
      • Select the profile of "firefox:default-esr" for NSS certificate directory

Firefox nicely shows the 3 NIST certificates from my Telesec card but not the important Brainpool certificate for eIDAS. It turns out that Firefox does not support Brainpool, despite that a patch has been provided 8 years ago. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943639 . Thus there is currently no way to use LibreOffice or Okular to signe PDFs because they rely on NSS.

@gniibe Thanks!

In the repo, for all related software, it's done.

Note that versions since 2020-11-07 to 2021-07-03 have major problem with non-POSIX shell, which doesn't support $(..) construct.

Thank you.

Kleopatra uses SCD READCERT for reading certificates from the PIV app. This is used to import the certificates stored by the PIV app. I'm not sure whether this is really needed. Maybe we could/should use "learn card" for this instead.

We could change how device keys are listed. Currently, Scute does KEYINFO --list, then asking gpgsm for each certificate.

The change requires "KEYINFO --list" command. This is not available through remote access of gpg-agent (extra socket).

I found this page:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/legacy/nss_tech_notes/nss_tech_note2/index.html

In the branch https://dev.gnupg.org/source/Scute/history/t6002/ , by the commit rS123d617ebefe: Less administration of devices by scute., things has been changed.

I realized that we need to invent a way to represent KEYGRIP (40-byte string) in the scheme of PKCS#11; PKCS#11 uses fixed-size string (space padded) for it's label (32) and serialno (16). Basically, it identifies the device by slot number.

For testing, I can use these sites for client certificate authentication:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38095559/https-test-server-that-checks-client-certificates

t-link does not do antthing useful, anyway. I don't think it is justified to add dlopen stuff. Running real test is anyway a manual action; for a full test automation we would need to emulate all supported cards.

the t-link test should dlopen scute.so in runtime rather than link against it in build-time.

As of slibtool commit 9c5ba5eb, scute now builds out of the box. I'd still recommend taking the above into consideration, though.

For what it's worth, scute is in violation of gnu libtool's documentation. Building with gnu libtool:

In T5394#145082, @werner wrote:

Regarding slibtool: I would actually like to have an easier to maintain tool than libtool (of which we use our own version) for GnuPG related software. However, its requirement "the compiler should support -std=c99" is currently a no-starter for libgcrypt and some other libs.

Regarding your patch, I am personally not opposed to it, but apparently Debian’s policy says the library/module should be called scute while Gentoo’s policy says it should be called libscute… What should an upstream developer do?

Regarding slibtool: I would actually like to have an easier to maintain tool than libtool (of which we use our own version) for GnuPG related software. However, its requirement "the compiler should support -std=c99" is currently a no-starter for libgcrypt and some other libs.

Looks good to me: "make && make check" passes.

FWIW, in GnuPG we use

It should be fixed with 49ad2b0e05e3fcb8c8c2e23bb1c6063b390dee02, though I don’t have a gcc-10 to check. It does work with gcc-9.3 with -fno-common.

It's OK not supporting generation in PostScript format.
Thus, we can remove image_eps support.
Then, convert is not required any more.

Fixed with commit 4d95b7457d62bf785a2157bb2cfa002bde7ff8f5. It turned out the test the convert was already there, but its result was not used to decide whether to build the doc or not.