From 130664344862a8c7afd3e24d8d36ce40af41a99f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "djm@openbsd.org" Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 04:34:47 +0000 Subject: upstream: document ed25519-sk pubkey, private key and certificate formats OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 795a7c1c80315412e701bef90e31e376ea2f3c88 --- PROTOCOL.u2f | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'PROTOCOL.u2f') diff --git a/PROTOCOL.u2f b/PROTOCOL.u2f index 8ccd20b5..7b1049c3 100644 --- a/PROTOCOL.u2f +++ b/PROTOCOL.u2f @@ -36,15 +36,18 @@ in conjunction with a small per-device secret that is unique to the hardware, thus requiring little on-device storage for an effectively unlimited number of supported keys. This drives the requirement that the key handle be supplied for each signature operation. U2F tokens -primarily use ECDSA signatures in the NIST-P256 field. +primarily use ECDSA signatures in the NIST-P256 field, though the FIDO2 +standard specified additional key types include one based on Ed25519. SSH U2F Key formats ------------------- -OpenSSH integrates U2F as a new key and corresponding certificate type: +OpenSSH integrates U2F as new key and corresponding certificate types: sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com + sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com + sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com These key types are supported only for user authentication with the "publickey" method. They are not used for host-based user authentication @@ -72,7 +75,22 @@ The corresponding private key contains: string key_handle string reserved -The certificate form of a SSH U2F key appends the usual certificate +The format of a sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com public key is: + + string "sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com" + string public key + string application (user-specified, but typically "ssh:") + +With a private half consisting of: + + string "sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com" + string public key + string application (user-specified, but typically "ssh:") + uint32 flags + string key_handle + string reserved + +The certificate form for SSH U2F keys appends the usual certificate information to the public key: string "sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com" @@ -92,6 +110,22 @@ information to the public key: string signature key string signature + string "sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com" + string nonce + string public key + string application + uint64 serial + uint32 type + string key id + string valid principals + uint64 valid after + uint64 valid before + string critical options + string extensions + string reserved + string signature key + string signature + 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 @@ -187,8 +221,9 @@ OpenSSH integration U2F tokens may be attached via a number of means, including USB and NFC. The USB interface is standardised around a HID protocol, but we want to be able to support other transports as well as dummy implementations for -regress testing. For this reason, OpenSSH shall perform all U2F operations -via a dynamically-loaded middleware library. +regress testing. For this reason, OpenSSH shall support a dynamically- +loaded middleware libraries to communicate with security keys, but offer +support for the common case of USB HID security keys internally. The middleware library need only expose a handful of functions: -- cgit v1.2.1