Hi Frederik,

the patch you mention was - according to my knowledge - never an
officially released one, and it doesn't work, not only because of the
wrong directory where the shared library is stored. Unfortunately it
seems that no one at Safenet except for a single person seems to know
how to use a ProtectServer HSM with openssl in the Linux world . And he
isn't the one sitting behind the support desk of the Customer Connection
Center.

I got from him the solution:

You must use openSSL's dynamic engine facility. For this you need the 2
products of the openSC project <http://www.opensc-project.org>
engine_pkcs11 and libp11. The addition to the configuration file looks
somthing like:

[engine_section]
pkcs11                  = pkcs11_section

[pkcs11_section]
engine_id               = pkcs11
dynamic_path            = /usr/lib64/engines/engine_pkcs11.so
MODULE_PATH             = /opt/PTK/lib/libcryptoki.so
init                    = 0
PIN                     = xxxxxxx

Use lib instead of lib64 if you have a 32-bit architecture;
libcrytoky.so is a symbolic link.
If the last line (PIN) isn't there you must enter the PIN when calling
openssl.

The openssl command must contain the options:
-engine pkcs11 -keyform engine -key
slot_yourSlotNumber-label_yourHSMslotLabel

I hope this helps - it works for me.

Regards
Willy

Am 02.12.2009 16:27, schrieb Frederik Mennes:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>  
>
> I am trying to use OpenSSL's EVP interface with as engine a SafeNet
> (formerly Eracom) ProtectServer HSM.
>
>  
>
> I have received from SafeNet a patched version of OpenSSL 0.9.8d. This
> patch is called "ERAC-3.30-openssl-0.9.8d.patch". I am working on
> Ubuntu Linux with kernel version 2.6.28-13-generic, and I use SafeNet
> ProtectToolkit C version 3.32.00.
>
>  
>
> I have successfully built the patched OpenSSL library. However when I
> try to use the SafeNet engine it seems the actual engine library
> cannot be found. Can anyone help?
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Here are the steps I have performed:
>
>  
>
> 1)       I have stored the patched OpenSSL 0.9.8d source code at
> following location:
>
>  
>
> /home/user/Desktop/openssl-0.9.8d-patched-safenet
>
>  
>
> 2)       I have built the patched OpenSSL source code using the
> instructions in the readme.txt file that came with the patch. This
> worked fine. The result of the build was following directory structure:
>
>  
>
> /opt/test/bin
>
>       c_rehash
>
> openssl
>
> /opt/test/include
>
>       /openssl [directory with .h files]
>
> /opt/test/lib
>
>       /engines [empty directory]
>
> libcrypto.so
>
> libssl.a
>
> libssl.so.0.9.8
>
> libcrypto.a
>
> libcrypto.so.0.9.8
>
> libssl.so
>
> /pkgconfig [directory with .pc files]
>
> /opt/test/ssl
>
>       /certs [empty directory]
>
>       /engines [empty directory]
>
>       /man
>
>             /man1
>
>             /man3
>
>             /man5
>
>             /man7
>
>       /misc [directory with some executables]
>
>       openssl.cnf
>
>       /private [empty directory]
>
>  
>
>      I*t seems all engine directories are empty, so I don't have an
> engine for the ProtectServer HSM. Is this normal?*
>
>  
>
> 3)       I have generated an RSA key pair on the ProtectServer HSM
> using the ctkmu tool:
>
>  
>
> ctkmu c --s0 -t rsa -n CA -a PTxSV
>
>  
>
> 4)       I now try to create a keylink for this file:
>
>  
>
> /opt/test/bin$ ./openssl genrsa --engine ERACOM --hwkey 0/CA > CA.keylink
>
>  
>
> However I receive following error (also when executed as root user):
>
>  
>
> bash: CA.keylink: Permission denied
>
>  
>
> Then I tried following command:
>
>  
>
> /opt/test/bin$ ./openssl genrsa --engine ERACOM
>
>  
>
>             And I received following error:
>
>            
>
> Invalid engine "ERACOM"
>
> 12740: error: 25066067: DSO support routines: DLFCN_LOAD: could not
> load the shared library: dso_dlfcn.c:16: filename
> (/usr/lib/ssl/engines/libERACOM.so): no such file or directory
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Frederik
>


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