Help wanted: how to get cert Subject/Issuer (Yubikey)

[netmiller]

I'm struggling with Yubikey 4 PIV slots, and trying to find specific slot Subject/Issuer value.

Trying something code like :

const graphene = require('graphene-pk11');

// pkcs11.load("./lib/libykcs11.dylib");
const mod = graphene.Module.load('./lib/libykcs11.dylib', 'test17');

mod.initialize();

const session = mod.getSlots(0).open();
session.login('776655');

const fetchedCerts = session.find({ class:graphene.ObjectClass.PUBLIC_KEY });
const cert = fetchedCerts.items(1).toType();    // get slot 9c/Digital Signature

// console.log(`======= certificate: `, cert)
console.log(`======= Object.getOwnPropertyNames(certificate): `, Object.getOwnPropertyNames(cert))
console.log(`======= certificate.lib: `, cert.lib)
console.log(`======= certificate.handle: `, cert.handle)
console.log(`======= certificate.handle.toString('hex'): `, cert.handle.toString('hex'))
console.log(`======= certificate.id.toString('hex'): `, cert.id.toString('hex'))
console.log(`======= certificate.label: `, cert.label)
console.log(`======= certificate.subject: `, cert.subject);
// console.log(`======= certificate.value: `, cert.value)

mod.finalize()

but I got :

► iMac@pkcs11$ node test17.js
======= Object.getOwnPropertyNames(certificate):  [ 'lib', 'handle', 'session' ]
======= certificate.lib:  PKCS11 {}
======= certificate.handle:  <Buffer 59 00 00 00 00 00 00 00>
======= certificate.handle.toString('hex'):  5900000000000000
======= certificate.id.toString('hex'):  02
======= certificate.label:  Public key for Digital Signature
/Users/esa/devel/nodejs/pkcs11/node_modules/graphene-pk11/build/object.js:59
        tmpl = this.lib.C_GetAttributeValue(this.session.handle, this.handle, tmpl);
                        ^

Error: CKR_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_INVALID:18
    at Error (native) C_GetAttributeValue:436

Yubikey's own tool gets information:

► iMac@pkcs11$ yubico-piv-tool -a status
CHUID:	3019d4e739da739ced39ce739d836858210842108421384210c3f534103b75ffeac32529144aa56f3fbe31d518350832303330303130313e00fe00
CCC:	f015a000000116ff029742fba7ce8f92eebca1c15293b7f10121f20121f300f40100f50110f600f700fa00fb00fc00fd00fe00
Slot 9a:
	Algorithm:	RSA2048
	Subject DN:	[email protected], OU=db1,db2,db3, O=vaka.fi
	Issuer DN:	[email protected], OU=db1,db2,db3, O=vaka.fi
	Fingerprint:	3727fe8ebb203427967fe7dcef154c86a6a304e2e19c2f72ab7624db56b650c2
	Not Before:	Dec  4 14:59:24 2017 GMT
	Not After:	Dec  8 14:59:24 2020 GMT
Slot 9c:
	Algorithm:	RSA2048
	Subject DN:	[email protected], OU=db1,db2,db3, O=vaka.fi
	Issuer DN:	[email protected], OU=db1,db2,db3, O=vaka.fi
	Fingerprint:	aeb931abcb2673850a75d532763806f3b5e5929a0cc9ad40871eda1f2202237b
	Not Before:	Dec  4 15:00:03 2017 GMT
	Not After:	Dec  8 15:00:03 2020 GMT
Slot 9d:
	Algorithm:	RSA2048
	Subject DN:	[email protected] , OU=db1,db2 O=vaka.fi , L=6946198
	Issuer DN:	[email protected] , OU=db1,db2 O=vaka.fi , L=6946198
	Fingerprint:	cedbf86b94c4bf212b1dec819fce8cc74089e27371c8adaba6e84c135ff56a4c
	Not Before:	Jan 16 17:44:02 2018 GMT
	Not After:	Jan 16 17:44:02 2020 GMT
PIN tries left:	3

and I'm trying to get Subject DN (or Issuer DN) string to show information for end user.

Is there a way to get it via PKCS#11 (graphene-pk11) ??? Any code sample or workaround?

[microshine]

Yubico PKCS#11 doesn't support CKA_SUBJECT attribute https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-piv-tool/blob/127227fe4c705db9173254c20eb3fcb5085d13c6/ykcs11/objects.c#L538

You can use pkijs to parse X509 certificate and get it's name

• X509 certificate parsing
• X500 name to string

[netmiller]

Thank you! That's what I suspected. I'll try with pkijs .

[microshine]

One more example

Have you seen node-webcrypto-p11? It's based on graphene-pk11 and implements WebCrypto interface.

[netmiller]

@microshine OK, I'll take a look 👍

[netmiller]

@microshine I had some luck using node-webcrypto-p11, so I guess I can use it to get CKA_SUBJECT info to my app. Thank's for advise.

Can I use graphene and node-webcrypto-p11 simultaneously in my Electron app? Is there likely to be any side-effects with sessions etc ??

[microshine]

Yes, you can.

Here is webcrypto-local application which supports multi PKCS#11 libraries. Here you can see code how I use node-webcrypto-p11 and graphene-pk11