Re: [jose] JOSE and PKCS11

"jose" <jose-bounces@ietf.org> wrote on 02/27/2019 03:18:51 AM:
>
> I’m not sure I understand yet the issue that is being addressed with
> this work.
>
> Certainly many JOSE libraries already support HSMs. We have
> customers using HSMs with our JOSE library via PKCS#11. But most of
> our use-cases typically only ever publish public keys as JWKs.
>
> You can already encode an identifier for a local private key using
> the key id (kid) header, so it’s not clear to me why you would need
> anything else if no actual key material is being transported. So
> what are the actual use-cases that need to be solved? Presumably
> some sort of communication between two parties that share access to
> the same HSM?

Does the format of the kid need to be specified so that an implementation
would react to it?

A use case would be that one gets several public keys from different people
to encrypt some data. I have several keys and I would like to avoid
decryption by trial and error, which becomes more time consuming when
network devices are involved, so I send the public key in JWE format and it
contains the URI (pkcs11 or kmip) for the key to use for decryption. The
encryptor embeds this key identifier in the recipients section so that I
know which section is for me and which key to use for decrypting.

   Stefan

>
> — Neil
>
> On 26 Feb 2019, at 23:29, Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com> wrote on 11/01/2018 07:07:55
PM:
>
> >
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mccallum-jose-pkcs11-jwk-00
> >
> > I plan to update this in the upcoming months and publish it as an
> > independent draft. Likewise, we are implementing it here:
> >
> > https://github.com/latchset/jose
> >
> > Your contributions are welcome!
> >
>
> RFC 7516 A.4.1 shows examples for encrypting the CEK with an RSA key
> and an AES key:
>
>    {"alg":"RSA1_5","kid":"2011-04-29"}
>
>   and
>
>   {"alg":"A128KW","kid":"7"}
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7516#appendix-A..4.1
>
>
> Would one add a p11 field for pkcs11 support in this case? Would kid
> still have a meaning here? Or could one encode the pkcs11 URI in the
> kid field? Similarly, one could come up with a kmip URI (missing any
> standard for it) and put that into the kid, like this :  "kid":
> "kmip:uuid=<uuid>".. An implementation would have to have some sort
> of configuration file to look up the credentials to access the
> server where the key with that UUID is located.
>
>    Stefan
>
>

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