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Re: [tor-dev] adding smartcard support to Tor

Thank you Evan, Donncha,

Regarding 1024-bit RSA support, take a look atÂhttp://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsvenda/jcsupport.html - almost all JavaCard cards support that.Â

I'm a Java developer but it looks like I'm going to have to switch to (and learn) Python for this since almost all Tor utilities appear to only be maintained in Python (and I don't feel like reinventing the wheel in Java). We'll see...

Thanks Evan for the .onion links, I'll take a look. I'm still collecting data, testing hardware, etc. BTW, one of the cheapest options for this isÂhttp://www.ftsafe.com/product/epass/eJavaToken - $12 atÂhttp://javacardos.com/store/smartcard_eJavaToken.php . Unfortunately it has a bug that prevents OpenPGP from running (something to do with signature padding, I didn't look much into it). My plan is to write a very small JavaCard-based applet to load onto the card - that only does RSA key generation and signing, nothing else. Easy to write and easy to audit.

Thanks again,
Razvan

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Razvan Dragomirescu
Chief Technology Officer
Cayenne Graphics SRL

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Evan Margin <twim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Donncha!

Donncha à Cearbhaill:
> However his code was integrating with a smartcard at a very low
> level by sending AT commands manually. I don't think that is the
> best approach for compatibility.
>
> I think a better way would be to interface with the tokens via the
> PKCS#11 protocol. The majority of smartcards and HSMs implement this
>Â standard and there are compatible implementations available for most
>Â operating systems. The Python pykcs11 module should be a helpful
> start [1].

Yeah, interfacing smartcard directly or via GnuPG scdaemon is not the
best approach. But PKCS#11 in even worse. Much much worse. This standard
is so huge that noone can implement it right. It raises enterance
threshold so high that it will be used only by overproprietary entities.
OpenPGP Card spec is pretty small so that everyone can write code within
an hour and start to interface with a card. So did I. At least I know
what's going on under the hood and these transparency and simplicity
makes this setup more secure.

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Ivan Markin
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