source: postlfs/security/p11-kit.xml@ 9533795

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  %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.gz">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-md5sum        "c4c3eecfe6bd6e62e436f62b51980749">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-size          "1.2 MB">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-buildsize     "46 MB (add 166 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY p11-kit-time          "0.4 SBU (add 0.6 SBU for tests)">
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<sect1 id="p11-kit" xreflabel="p11-kit-&p11-kit-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="p11-kit.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <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>

    &lfs84_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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libtasn1"/>
    </para>

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

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/p11-kit"/>
    </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.in &amp;&amp;
cat &gt;&gt; trust/trust-extract-compat.in &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Copy existing anchor modifications to /etc/ssl/local
/usr/libexec/make-ca/copy-trust-modifications

# Generate a new trust store
/usr/sbin/make-ca -f -g</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-trust-paths=/etc/pki/anchors &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

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

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

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

  </sect2>

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

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

    <para>
      <option>--with-hash-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>--enable-doc</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 and trust
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libp11-kit.so and p11-kit-proxy.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/pkcs11,
          /usr/include/p11-kit-1,
          /usr/lib/{p11-kit,pkcs11},
          /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
            upadated 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>