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"Protected" types (those only available + within NSS) begin with "nss".<br> + <br> + Open issues appears as numbered indents.<br> + <br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="asn1"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/asn1/"> + ASN.1</a> + </h3> + ASN.1 encoder/decoder wrapping around the current + ASN.1 implementation.<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSASN1EncodingType"> NSSASN1EncodingType</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1Item">nssASN1Item</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1Template">nssASN1Template</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1ChooseTemplateFunction"> + nssASN1ChooseTemplateFunction</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1Encoder">nssASN1Encoder</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1Decoder">nssASN1Decoder</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1EncodingPart"> nssASN1EncodingPart</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1NotifyFunction"> + nssASN1NotifyFunction</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1EncoderWriteFunction"> + nssASN1EncoderWriteFunction</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssASN1DecoderFilterFunction"> + nssASN1DecoderFilterFunction</a> + <br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"> +<h3><a name="base"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/base/"> + Base</a> + </h3> + Set of base utilities for Stan implementation. + These are all fairly straightforward, except for nssPointerTracker.<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSError">NSSError</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSArena">NSSArena</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSItem">NSSItem</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSBER">NSSBER</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSDER">NSSDER</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSBitString">NSSBitString</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSUTF8">NSSUTF8</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSASCII7">NSSASCII7</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssArenaMark">nssArenaMark</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssPointerTracker">nssPointerTracker</a> + <br> + This is intended for debug builds only.<br> + +<ol> + <li>Ignored for now.<br> + </li> + +</ol> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssStringType">nssStringType</a> + <br> + <br> + Suggested additions:<br> + +<ol> + <li>nssList - A list that optionally uses a lock. This list would + manage the currently loaded modules in a trust domain, etc.</li> + + <ul> + <li>SECMODListLock kept track of the number of waiting threads. Will + this be needed in the trust domain?</li> + + </ul> + +</ol> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"> +<h3><a name="ckfw"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/"> + CKFW</a> + </h3> + The cryptoki framework, used for building cryptoki tokens. + This needs to be described in a separate document showing how + to set up a token using CKFW. This code only relates to tokens, + so it is not relevant here.<br> + <br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"> +<h3><a name="dev"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/dev/"> + Device</a> + </h3> + Defines cryptoki devices used in NSS. This + is not part of the exposed API. It is a low-level API allowing +NSS to manage cryptoki devices.<br> + <br> + The relationship is like this:<br> + <br> + libpki --> libdev --> cryptoki<br> + <br> + As an example,<br> + <br> + NSSTrustDomain_FindCertificate --> NSSToken_FindCertificate --> + C_FindObjects<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSModule">NSSModule</a> + <br> + Replaces the SECMOD API. The module manages a +PRLibrary that holds a cryptoki implementation via a number of slots. + The API should provide the ability to Load and Unload a module, +Login and Logout to the module (through its slots), and to locate a +particular slot/token.<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSSlot">NSSSlot</a> + <br> + This and NSSToken combine to replace the PK11 API parts + that relate to slot and token management. The slot API should + provide the ability to Login/Logout to a slot, check the login status, + determine basic configuration information about the slot, and modify + the password settings.<br> + +<ol> + <li>Should slots also maintain a default session? This session would + be used for slot management calls (sections 9.5 and9.6 of PKCS#11). Or + is the token session sufficient (this would not work if C_GetTokenInfo and + C_InitToken need to be wrapped in a threadsafe session).<br> + </li> + +</ol> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSToken">NSSToken</a> + <br> + Fills in the gaps left by NSSSlot. Much of the +cryptoki API is directed towards slots. However, some functionality + clearly belongs with a token type. For example, a certificate + lives on a token, not a slot, so one would expect a function NSSToken_FindCertificate. + Thus functions that deal with importing/exporting an object +and performing actual cryptographic operations belong here.<br> + +<ol> + <li>The distinction between a slot and a token is not clear. Most + functions take a slotID as an argument, even though it is obvious that + the event is intended to occur on a token. That leaves various + possibilities:</li> + + <ol> + <li>Implement the API entirely as NSSToken. If the token is not + present, some calls will simply fail.</li> + <li>Divide the API between NSSToken and NSSSlot, as described above. + NSSSlot would handle cryptoki calls specified as "slot management", + while NSSToken handles actual token operations.</li> + <li>Others?</li> + + </ol> + <li>Session management. Tokens needs a threadsafe session handle + to perform operations. CryptoContexts are meant to provide such sessions, + but other objects will need access to token functions as well (examples: +the TrustDomain_Find functions, _Login, _Logout, and others that do not exist + such as NSSToken_ChangePassword). For those functions, the token could + maintain a default session. Thus all NSSToken API functions would take + sessionOpt as an argument. If the caller is going to provide a session, + it sends an NSSSession there, otherwise it sends NULL and the default session + is utilized.<br> + </li> + +</ol> + Proposed:<br> + NSSSession<br> + Wraps a Cryptoki session. Created from a slot. Used to manage + sessions for crypto contexts. Has a lock field, which locks the session + if the slot is not threadsafe.<br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="pki"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/pki/"> + PKI</a> + </h3> + The NSS PKI library.<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSCertificate">NSS</a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSCertificate">Certificate</a> + <br> + +<ol> + <li>The API leaves open the possibility of NSSCertificate meaning various + certificate types, not just X.509. The way to keep open this possibility + is to keep only generally useful information in the NSSCertificate type. + Examples would be the certificate encoding, label, trust (obtained + from cryptoki calls), an email address, etc. Some type of generic +reference should be kept to the decoded certificate, which would then be +accessed by a type-specific API (e.g., NSSX509_GetSubjectName).</li> + +</ol> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSUserCertificate">NSSUserCertificate</a> + <br> + +<ol> + <li>Should this be a typedef of NSSCertificate? This implies that + any function that requires an NSSUserCertificate would fail when called + with a certificate lacking a private key. </li> + +</ol> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSPrivateKey">NSSPrivateKey</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSPublicKey">NSSPublicKey</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSSymmetricKey">NSSSymmetricKey</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSTrustDomain">NSSTrustDomain</a> + <br> + A trust domain is "the field in which certificates may + be validated." It is a collection of modules capable of performing + cryptographic operations and storing certs and keys. This collection + is managed by NSS in a manner opaque to the consumer. The slots + will have various orderings determining which has preference for a +given operation. For example, the trust domain may order the storage + of user certificates one way, and the storage of email certificates in + another way [is that a good example?].<br> + <br> + +<ol> + <li> How will ordering work? We already have the suggestion + that there be two kinds of ordering: storage and search. How +will they be constructed/managed? Do we want to expose access +to a token that overrides this ordering (i.e., the download of updated +root certs may need to override storage order)</li> + <li>How are certs cached? Nelson wonders what it means to Stan + when a cert does not live on a token yet. Bob, Terry, and I discussed + this. My conclusion is that there should be a type, separate +from NSSCertificate, that holds the decoded cert parts (e.g., NSSX509Certificate, + or to avoid confusion, NSSX509DecodedParts). NSSCertificate would + keep a handle to this type, so that it only needs to decode the cert +once. The NSSTrustDomain would keep a hash table of cached certs, +some of which may not live on a token yet (i.e., they are only NSSX509DecodedParts). + This cache could be accessed in the same way the temp db was, +and when the cert is ready to be moved onto a token a call to NSSTrustDomain_ImportCertificate + is made. Note that this is essentially the same as CERT_TempCertToPerm.</li> + + <ul> + <li>The hashtable in lib/base (copied from ckfw/hash.c) uses the identity +hash. Therefore, in a hash of certificates, the key is the certificate +pointer itself. One possibility is to store the decoded cert (NSSX509DecodedParts +above) as the value in the {key, value} pair. When a cert is decoded, +the cert pointer and decoding pointer are added to the hash. Subsequent +lookups have access to one or both of these pointers. This keeps NSSCertificate +separate from its decoding, while providing a way to locate it.</li> + + </ul> + <li>The API is designed to keep token details hidden from the user. However, + it has already been realized that PSM and CMS may need special access to +tokens. Is this part of the TrustDomain API, or should PSM and CMS +be allowed to use "friend" headers from the Token API?</li> + <li>Do we want to allow traversal via NSSTrustDomain_TraverseXXXX?<br> + </li> + +</ol> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSCryptoContext"><br> + NSSCryptoContext</a> + <br> + Analgous to a Cryptoki session. Manages session objects only.<br> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSTime">NSSTime</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSUsage">NSSUsage</a> + <br> + +<ol> + <li> See Fred's <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/pki/nsspkit.h#187"> + comments</a> + .</li> + +</ol> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSPolicies">NSSPolicies</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSAlgorithmAndParameters"> + NSSAlgorithmAndParameters</a> + <br> + +<ol> + <li> Again, Fred's <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/pki/nsspkit.h#215"> + comments</a> + . The old NSS code had various types related to algorithms + running around in it. We had SECOidTag, SECAlgorithmID, SECItem's + for parameters, CK_MECHANISM for cryptoki, etc. This type should + be able to encapsulate all of those.</li> + +</ol> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSCallback">NSSCallback</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSOperations">NSSOperations</a> + <br> + <br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2"><br> + <br> + A diagram to suggest a possible TrustDomain architecture.<br> + <br> + <img src="./standiag.png" alt="Trust Domain Diagram" width="748" height="367"> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="pki1"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/pki1/"> + PKI1</a> + </h3> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSOID">NSSOID</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSATAV">NSSATAV</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSRDN">NSSRDN</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSRDNSeq">NSSRDNSeq</a> + <br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=NSSName">NSSName</a> + <br> + NSSNameChoice<br> + NSSGeneralName<br> + NSSGeneralNameChoice<br> + NSSOtherName<br> + NSSRFC822Name<br> + NSSDNSName<br> + NSSX400Address<br> + NSSEdiParityAddress<br> + NSSURI<br> + NSSIPAddress<br> + NSSRegisteredID<br> + NSSGeneralNameSeq<br> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ident?i=nssAttributeTypeAliasTable"> + nssAttributeTypeAliasTable</a> + <br> + <br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="pkix"></a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/pkix/"> + PKIX </a> + </h3> + There is a plethora of PKIX related types here.<br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="build"></a> + Building Stan</h3> + <br> + From nss/lib, run "make BUILD_STAN=1"<br> + <br> + +<hr width="100%" size="2" align="Left"><br> + +<h3><a name="test"></a> + Testing Stan</h3> + A new command line tool, pkiutil, has been created to use only + the Stan API. It depends on a new library, cmdlib, meant to replace + the old secutil library. The old library had code used by products + that needed to be integrated into the main library codebase somehow. The + goal of the new cmdlib is to have functionality needed strictly for NSS + tools.<br> + <br> + How to build:<br> + +<ol> + <li>cd nss/cmd/cmdlib; make</li> + <li>cd ../pkiutil; make</li> + +</ol> + pkiutil will give detailed help with either "pkiutil -?" or "pkiutil + --help".<br> + <br> + So far, the only available test is to list certs on the builtins token. + Copy "libnssckbi.so" (or whatever it is) to cmd/pkiutil. Then + run "pkiutil -L" or "pkiutil --list". The list of certificate nicknames + should be displayed.<br> + <br> + <br> + +</body> +</html> |