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https://github.com/jlangenegger/ssh_certificate/

2 - Prepare CA

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Warning

This needs to be done on a offline machine!

Step 1 - Activate CCID

Activate the USB interface CCID on the Yubikey. To install the Yubikey manager check https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/.

Activate the mode using:

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ykman mode CCID

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Step 1 - Install libraries that are later used


To setup the yubikey the yubico-piv-tool is used. It must be installed from source to work correctly. For the installation the following packages are needed:

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apt-get install git cmake build-essential libtool libssl-dev pkg-config check libpcsclite-dev gengetopt help2man

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2 - Install the tool

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git clone https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-piv-tool.git

cd yubico-piv-tool

mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install


3 - Prepare Yubikey

Warning

This needs to be done on a offline machine!

Step 1 - Activate CCID

Activate the USB interface CCID on the Yubikey. To install

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the Yubikey manager check https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/.

Activate the mode using:

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ykman mode CCID

Step 2 - Change default pins and management key of yubikey

To prepare the PIV applet in the YubiKey the management key, the pin and the punk needs to be set.

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yubico-piv-tool -a set-mgm-key -n 010203040506070801020304050607080102030405060708
yubico-piv-tool -k $key -a change-pin -P 123456 -N 123456
yubico-piv-tool -k $key -a change-puk -P 12345678 -N 12345678

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3- Generate RSA private keys for SSH Host CA

Then generate a RSA private key for the SSH Host CA, and generate a dummy X.509 certificate for that key. The only use for the X.509 certificate is to make PIV/PKCS#11 happy. They want to be able to extract the public-key from the smart-card, and do that through the X.509 certificate.

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YUBIKEYNUM=0
PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE="/etc/ssh-ca"

mkdir -p $PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE

# generate key directly on yubikey and self-sign the certificate
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -s 9c -a generate -o yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -a verify-pin -a selfsign-certificate --valid-days 10000 -s 9c -S "/CN=yubikey`$YUBIKEYNUM`/" -i yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem -o yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem
# import self-signed certificate
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -a import-certificate -s 9c -i yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem

# convert public key to RSA
ssh-keygen -f yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem -i -mPKCS8 > yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pub

# move public key to correct place and remove leftovers
mv yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pub $PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE 
rm yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem

3 - Prepare CA

Step 1 - Activate CCID

Activate the USB interface CCID on the Yubikey. To install the Yubikey manager check https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/.

Activate the mode using:

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4 - Sign client's public keys

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