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<sect1 id="pkcs11">
  <title>PKCS #11 (Cryptoki) support</title>
  <para>PKCS #11 (Public Key Cryptography Standard #11) defines a
  platform- independent API for the control of hardware security
  modules (HSMs) and other cryptographic support devices.</para>
  <para>BIND 9 is known to work with two HSMs: The Sun SCA 6000
  cryptographic acceleration board, tested under Solaris x86, and
  the AEP Keyper network-attached key storage device, tested with
  Debian Linux, Solaris x86 and Windows Server 2003.</para>
  <sect2>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <para>See the HSM vendor documentation for information about
    installing, initializing, testing and troubleshooting the
    HSM.</para>
    <para>BIND 9 uses OpenSSL for cryptography, but stock OpenSSL
    does not yet fully support PKCS #11. However, a PKCS #11 engine
    for OpenSSL is available from the OpenSolaris project. It has
    been modified by ISC to work with with BIND 9, and to provide
    new features such as PIN management and key by
    reference.</para>
    <para>The patched OpenSSL depends on a "PKCS #11 provider".
    This is a shared library object, providing a low-level PKCS #11
    interface to the HSM hardware. It is dynamically loaded by
    OpenSSL at runtime. The PKCS #11 provider comes from the HSM
    vendor, and and is specific to the HSM to be controlled.</para>
    <para>There are two "flavors" of PKCS #11 support provided by
    the patched OpenSSL, one of which must be chosen at
    configuration time. The correct choice depends on the HSM
    hardware:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Use 'crypto-accelerator' with HSMs that have hardware
        cryptographic acceleration features, such as the SCA 6000
        board. This causes OpenSSL to run all supported
        cryptographic operations in the HSM.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Use 'sign-only' with HSMs that are designed to
        function primarily as secure key storage devices, but lack
        hardware acceleration. These devices are highly secure, but
        are not necessarily any faster at cryptography than the
        system CPU &mdash; often, they are slower. It is therefore
        most efficient to use them only for those cryptographic
        functions that require access to the secured private key,
        such as zone signing, and to use the system CPU for all
        other computationally-intensive operations. The AEP Keyper
        is an example of such a device.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <para>The modified OpenSSL code is included in the BIND 9.7.0
    release, in the form of a context diff against the latest OpenSSL.
    </para>
    <note>
      The latest OpenSSL version at the time of the BIND release
      is 0.9.8l.
      ISC will provide an updated patch as new versions of OpenSSL
      are released. The version number in the following examples
      is expected to change.</note>
    <para>
    Before building BIND 9 with PKCS #11 support, it will be
    necessary to build OpenSSL with this patch in place and inform
    it of the path to the HSM-specific PKCS #11 provider
    library.</para>
    <para>Obtain OpenSSL 0.9.8l:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>wget <ulink>http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8l.tar.gz</ulink></userinput>
</screen>
    <para>Extract the tarball:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>tar zxf openssl-0.9.8l.tar.gz</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>Apply the patch from the BIND 9 release:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>patch -p1 -d openssl-0.9.8l \
            &lt; bind-9.7.0/bin/pkcs11/openssl-0.9.8l-patch</userinput>
</screen>
    <note>(Note that the patch file may not be compatible with the
    "patch" utility on all operating systems. You may need to
    install GNU patch.)</note>
    <para>When building OpenSSL, place it in a non-standard
    location so that it does not interfere with OpenSSL libraries
    elsewhere on the system. In the following examples, we choose
    to install into "/opt/pkcs11/usr". We will use this location
    when we configure BIND 9.</para>
    <sect3>
      
      <title>Building OpenSSL for the AEP Keyper on Linux</title>
      <para>The AEP Keyper is a highly secure key storage device,
      but does not provide hardware cryptographic acceleration. It
      can carry out cryptographic operations, but it is probably
      slower than your system's CPU. Therefore, we choose the
      'sign-only' flavor when building OpenSSL.</para>
      <para>The Keyper-specific PKCS #11 provider library is
      delivered with the Keyper software. In this example, we place
      it /opt/pkcs11/usr/lib:</para>
      <screen>
$ <userinput>cp pkcs11.GCC4.0.2.so.4.05 /opt/pkcs11/usr/lib/libpkcs11.so</userinput>
</screen>
      <para>This library is only available for Linux as a 32-bit
      binary. If we are compiling on a 64-bit Linux system, it is
      necessary to force a 32-bit build, by specifying -m32 in the
      build options.</para>
      <para>Finally, the Keyper library requires threads, so we
      must specify -pthread.</para>
      <screen>
$ <userinput>cd openssl-0.9.8l</userinput>
$ <userinput>./Configure linux-generic32 -m32 -pthread \
            --pk11-libname=/opt/pkcs11/usr/lib/libpkcs11.so \
            --pk11-flavor=sign-only \
            --prefix=/opt/pkcs11/usr</userinput>
</screen>
      <para>After configuring, run "<command>make</command>"
      and "<command>make test</command>". If "<command>make
      test</command>" fails with "pthread_atfork() not found", you forgot to
      add the -pthread above.</para>
    </sect3>
    <sect3>
      
      <title>Building OpenSSL for the SCA 6000 on Solaris</title>
      <para>The SCA-6000 PKCS #11 provider is installed as a system
      library, libpkcs11. It is a true crypto accelerator, up to 4
      times faster than any CPU, so the flavor shall be
      'crypto-accelerator'.</para>
      <para>In this example, we are building on Solaris x86 on an
      AMD64 system.</para>
      <screen>
$ <userinput>cd openssl-0.9.8l</userinput>
$ <userinput>./Configure solaris64-x86_64-cc \
            --pk11-libname=/usr/lib/64/libpkcs11.so \
            --pk11-flavor=crypto-accelerator \
            --prefix=/opt/pkcs11/usr</userinput>
</screen>
      <para>(For a 32-bit build, use "solaris-x86-cc" and
      /usr/lib/libpkcs11.so.)</para>
      <para>After configuring, run 
      <command>make</command> and 
      <command>make test</command>.</para>
      <para>Once you have built OpenSSL, run
      "<command>apps/openssl engine pkcs11</command>" to confirm
      that PKCS #11 support was compiled in correctly. The output
      should be one of the following lines, depending on the flavor
      selected:</para>
      <screen>
        (pkcs11) PKCS #11 engine support (sign only)
</screen>
      <para>Or:</para>
      <screen>
        (pkcs11) PKCS #11 engine support (crypto accelerator)
</screen>
      <para>Next, run
      "<command>apps/openssl engine pkcs11 -t</command>". This will
      attempt to initialize the PKCS #11 engine. If it is able to
      do so successfully, it will report
      <quote><literal>[ available ]</literal></quote>.</para>
      <para>If the output is correct, run
      "<command>make install</command>" which will install the
      modified OpenSSL suite to 
      <filename>/opt/pkcs11/usr</filename>.</para>
    </sect3>
  </sect2>
  <sect2>
    <title>Building BIND 9 with PKCS#11</title>
    <para>When building BIND 9, the location of the custom-built
    OpenSSL library must be specified via configure.</para>
    <sect3>
      
      <title>Configuring BIND 9 for Linux</title>
      <para>To link with the PKCS #11 provider, threads must be
      enabled in the BIND 9 build.</para>
      <para>The PKCS #11 library for the AEP Keyper is currently
      only available as a 32-bit binary. If we are building on a
      64-bit host, we must force a 32-bit build by adding "-m32" to
      the CC options on the "configure" command line.</para>
      <screen>
$ <userinput>cd ../bind-9.7.0</userinput>
$ <userinput>./configure CC="gcc -m32" --enable-threads \
           --with-openssl=/opt/pkcs11/usr \
           --with-pkcs11=/opt/pkcs11/usr/lib/libpkcs11.so</userinput>
</screen>
    </sect3>
    <sect3>
      
      <title>Configuring BIND 9 for Solaris</title>
      <para>To link with the PKCS #11 provider, threads must be
      enabled in the BIND 9 build.</para>
      <screen>
$ <userinput>cd ../bind-9.7.0</userinput>
$ <userinput>./configure CC="cc -xarch=amd64" --enable-threads \
            --with-openssl=/opt/pkcs11/usr \
            --with-pkcs11=/usr/lib/64/libpkcs11.so</userinput>
</screen>
      <para>(For a 32-bit build, omit CC="cc -xarch=amd64".)</para>
      <para>If configure complains about OpenSSL not working, you
      may have a 32/64-bit architecture mismatch. Or, you may have
      incorrectly specified the path to OpenSSL (it should be the
      same as the --prefix argument to the OpenSSL
      Configure).</para>
    </sect3>
    <para>After configuring, run
    "<command>make</command>",
    "<command>make test</command>" and
    "<command>make install</command>".</para>
  </sect2>
  <sect2>
    <title>PKCS #11 Tools</title>
    <para>BIND 9 includes a minimal set of tools to operate the
    HSM, including 
    <command>pkcs11-keygen</command> to generate a new key pair
    within the HSM, 
    <command>pkcs11-list</command> to list objects currently
    available, and 
    <command>pkcs11-destroy</command> to remove objects.</para>
    <para>In UNIX/Linux builds, these tools are built only if BIND
    9 is configured with the --with-pkcs11 option. (NOTE: If
    --with-pkcs11 is set to "yes", rather than to the path of the
    PKCS #11 provider, then the tools will be built but the
    provider will be left undefined. Use the -m option or the
    PKCS11_PROVIDER environment variable to specify the path to the
    provider.)</para>
  </sect2>
  <sect2>
    <title>Using the HSM</title>
    <para>First, we must set up the runtime environment so the
    OpenSSL and PKCS #11 libraries can be loaded:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/pkcs11/usr/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>When operating an AEP Keyper, it is also necessary to
    specify the location of the "machine" file, which stores
    information about the Keyper for use by PKCS #11 provider
    library. If the machine file is in 
    <filename>/opt/Keyper/PKCS11Provider/machine</filename>,
    use:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>export KEYPER_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Keyper/PKCS11Provider</userinput>
</screen>
    
    <para>These environment variables must be set whenever running
    any tool that uses the HSM, including 
    <command>pkcs11-keygen</command>, 
    <command>pkcs11-list</command>, 
    <command>pkcs11-destroy</command>, 
    <command>dnssec-keyfromlabel</command>, 
    <command>dnssec-signzone</command>, 
    <command>dnssec-keygen</command>(which will use the HSM for
    random number generation), and 
    <command>named</command>.</para>
    <para>We can now create and use keys in the HSM. In this case,
    we will create a 2048 bit key and give it the label
    "sample-ksk":</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>pkcs11-keygen -b 2048 -l sample-ksk</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>To confirm that the key exists:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>pkcs11-list</userinput>
Enter PIN:
object[0]: handle 2147483658 class 3 label[8] 'sample-ksk' id[0]
object[1]: handle 2147483657 class 2 label[8] 'sample-ksk' id[0]
</screen>
    <para>Before using this key to sign a zone, we must create a
    pair of BIND 9 key files. The "dnssec-keyfromlabel" utility
    does this. In this case, we will be using the HSM key
    "sample-ksk" as the key-signing key for "example.net":</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>dnssec-keyfromlabel -l sample-ksk -f KSK example.net</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>The resulting K*.key and K*.private files can now be used
    to sign the zone. Unlike normal K* files, which contain both
    public and private key data, these files will contain only the
    public key data, plus an identifier for the private key which
    remains stored within the HSM. The HSM handles signing with the
    private key.</para>
    <para>If you wish to generate a second key in the HSM for use
    as a zone-signing key, follow the same procedure above, using a
    different keylabel, a smaller key size, and omitting "-f KSK"
    from the dnssec-keyfromlabel arguments:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>pkcs11-keygen -b 1024 -l sample-zsk</userinput>
$ <userinput>dnssec-keyfromlabel -l sample-zsk example.net</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>Alternatively, you may prefer to generate a conventional
    on-disk key, using dnssec-keygen:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>dnssec-keygen example.net</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>This provides less security than an HSM key, but since
    HSMs can be slow or cumbersome to use for security reasons, it
    may be more efficient to reserve HSM keys for use in the less
    frequent key-signing operation. The zone-signing key can be
    rolled more frequently, if you wish, to compensate for a
    reduction in key security.</para>
    <para>Now you can sign the zone. (Note: If not using the -S
    option to 
    <command>dnssec-signzone</command>, it will be necessary to add
    the contents of both 
    <filename>K*.key</filename> files to the zone master file before
    signing it.)</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>dnssec-signzone -S example.net</userinput>
Enter PIN:
Verifying the zone using the following algorithms:
NSEC3RSASHA1.
Zone signing complete:
Algorithm: NSEC3RSASHA1: ZSKs: 1, KSKs: 1 active, 0 revoked, 0 stand-by
example.net.signed
</screen>
  </sect2>
  <sect2>
    <title>Specifying the engine on the command line</title>
    <para>The OpenSSL engine can be specified in 
    <command>named</command> and all of the BIND 
    <command>dnssec-*</command> tools by using the "-E
    &lt;engine&gt;" command line option. If BIND 9 is built with
    the --with-pkcs11 option, this option defaults to "pkcs11".
    Specifying the engine will generally not be necessary unless
    for some reason you wish to use a different OpenSSL
    engine.</para>
    <para>If you wish to disable use of the "pkcs11" engine &mdash;
    for troubleshooting purposes, or because the HSM is unavailable
    &mdash; set the engine to the empty string. For example:</para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>dnssec-signzone -E '' -S example.net</userinput>
</screen>
    <para>This causes 
    <command>dnssec-signzone</command> to run as if it were compiled
    without the --with-pkcs11 option.</para>
  </sect2>
  <sect2>
    <title>Running named with automatic zone re-signing</title>
    <para>If you want 
    <command>named</command> to dynamically re-sign zones using HSM
    keys, and/or to to sign new records inserted via nsupdate, then
    named must have access to the HSM PIN. This can be accomplished
    by placing the PIN into the openssl.cnf file (in the above
    examples, 
    <filename>/opt/pkcs11/usr/ssl/openssl.cnf</filename>).</para>
    <para>The location of the openssl.cnf file can be overridden by
    setting the OPENSSL_CONF environment variable before running
    named.</para>
    <para>Sample openssl.cnf:</para>
    <programlisting>
        openssl_conf = openssl_def
        [ openssl_def ]
        engines = engine_section
        [ engine_section ]
        pkcs11 = pkcs11_section
        [ pkcs11_section ]
        PIN = <replaceable>&lt;PLACE PIN HERE&gt;</replaceable>
</programlisting>
    <para>This will also allow the dnssec-* tools to access the HSM
    without PIN entry. (The pkcs11-* tools access the HSM directly,
    not via OpenSSL, so a PIN will still be required to use
    them.)</para>

    <warning>
      <para>Placing the HSM's PIN in a text file in
      this manner may reduce the security advantage of using an
      HSM. Be sure this is what you want to do before configuring
      OpenSSL in this way.</para>
    </warning>
  </sect2>
  
  
</sect1>

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