source: postlfs/security/p11-kit.xml@ 1685f47

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY p11-kit-download-http "https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/releases/download/&p11-kit-version;/p11-kit-&p11-kit-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-md5sum        "9fcb1ec80b5d083dd9b34122fa7c3c23">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-size          "940 KB">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-buildsize     "90 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-time          "0.6 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="p11-kit" xreflabel="p11-kit-&p11-kit-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="p11-kit.html"?>


  <title>p11-kit-&p11-kit-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="p11-kit">
    <primary sortas="a-p11-kit">p11-kit</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to p11-kit</title>

    <para>
      The <application>p11-kit</application> package provides a way to load and
      enumerate PKCS #11 (a Cryptographic Token Interface Standard) modules.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&p11-kit-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&p11-kit-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &p11-kit-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &p11-kit-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &p11-kit-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &p11-kit-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">p11-kit Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <!-- There is a check for libsystemd. It seems to install a systemd service
    in /usr/lib/systemd/user.-->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libtasn1"/> 
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="make-ca"/> 
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and
      <xref role="runtime" linkend="nss"/> (runtime)
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of p11-kit</title>

    <para>
      Prepare the distribution specific anchor hook:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed '20,$ d' -i trust/trust-extract-compat &amp;&amp;
cat &gt;&gt; trust/trust-extract-compat &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Copy existing anchor modifications to /etc/ssl/local
/usr/libexec/make-ca/copy-trust-modifications

# Update trust stores
/usr/sbin/make-ca -r</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>p11-kit</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir p11-build &amp;&amp;
cd    p11-build &amp;&amp;

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dtrust_paths=/etc/pki/anchors &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install &amp;&amp;
ln -sfv /usr/libexec/p11-kit/trust-extract-compat \
        /usr/bin/update-ca-certificates</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dtrust_paths=/etc/pki/anchors</parameter>: this switch
      sets the location of trusted certificates used by libp11-kit.so.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Dhash_impl=freebl</option>: Use this switch if you want to
      use the Freebl library from <application>NSS</application> for SHA1 and
      MD5 hashing.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Dgtk_doc=true</option>: Use this switch if you have installed
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and <xref linkend="libxslt"/> and wish to
      rebuild the documentation and generate manual pages.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring p11-kit</title>

    <para>
      The <application>p11-kit</application> trust module
      (<filename>/usr/lib/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so</filename>) can be used as a
      drop-in replacement for <filename>/usr/lib/libnssckbi.so</filename> to
      transparently make the system CAs available to
      <application>NSS</application> aware applications, rather than the static
      list provided by <filename>/usr/lib/libnssckbi.so</filename>. As the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, execute the
      following commands:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -sfv ./pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          p11-kit, trust, and update-ca-certificates
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libp11-kit.so and p11-kit-proxy.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/pkcs11,
          /usr/include/p11-kit-1,
          /usr/lib/pkcs11,
          /usr/libexec/p11-kit,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/p11-kit, and
          /usr/share/p11-kit
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="p11-kit-prog">
        <term><command>p11-kit</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a command line tool that can be used to perform operations
            on PKCS#11 modules configured on the system
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="p11-kit p11-kit-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-p11-kit">p11-kit</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="trust">
        <term><command>trust</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a command line tool to examine and modify the shared trust
            policy store
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="p11-kit trust">
            <primary sortas="b-trust">trust</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="update-ca-certificates">
        <term><command>update-ca-certificates</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a command line tool to both extract local certificates from an
            updated anchor store, and regenerate all anchors and certificate
            stores on the system. This is done unconditionally on BLFS using
            the <parameter>--force</parameter> and <parameter>--get</parameter>
            flags to <command>make-ca</command> and should likely not be used
            for automated updates
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="p11-kit update-ca-certificates">
            <primary sortas="b-update-ca-certificates">update-ca-certificates</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libp11-kit">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libp11-kit.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains functions used to coordinate initialization and
            finalization of any PKCS#11 module
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="p11-kit libp11-kit">
            <primary sortas="c-libp11-kit">libp11-kit.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="p11-kit-proxy">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">p11-kit-proxy.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the PKCS#11 proxy module
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="p11-kit p11-kit-proxy">
            <primary sortas="c-p11-kit-proxy">p11-kit-proxy.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>