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authordjm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org>2019-12-10 23:37:31 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2019-12-11 19:11:07 +1100
commita62f4e1960691f3aeb1f972e009788b29e2ae464 (patch)
tree65569906c0aaebae24715a5abc68bcc3c13f9509 /PROTOCOL.u2f
parent22d4beb79622fc82d7111ac941269861fc7aef8d (diff)
downloadopenssh-git-a62f4e1960691f3aeb1f972e009788b29e2ae464.tar.gz
upstream: some more corrections for documentation problems spotted
by Ron Frederick document certifiate private key format correct flags type for sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com keys OpenBSD-Commit-ID: fc4e9a1ed7f9f7f9dd83e2e2c59327912e933e74
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diff --git a/PROTOCOL.u2f b/PROTOCOL.u2f
index 823f5363..32bfa20f 100644
--- a/PROTOCOL.u2f
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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ With a private half consisting of:
string "sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com"
string public key
string application (user-specified, but typically "ssh:")
- uint32 flags
+ uint8 flags
string key_handle
string reserved
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ information to the public key:
string signature key
string signature
+and for security key ed25519 certificates:
+
string "sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com"
string nonce
string public key
@@ -126,6 +128,15 @@ information to the public key:
string signature key
string signature
+Both security key certificates use the following encoding for private keys:
+
+ string type (e.g. "sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com")
+ string pubkey (the above key/cert structure)
+ string application
+ uint8 flags
+ string key_handle
+ string reserved
+
During key generation, the hardware also returns attestation information
that may be used to cryptographically prove that a given key is
hardware-backed. Unfortunately, the protocol required for this proof is
@@ -188,7 +199,6 @@ For Ed25519 keys the signature is encoded as:
byte flags
uint32 counter
-
ssh-agent protocol extensions
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