KEYNOTE(1) BSD Reference Manual KEYNOTE(1)NAMEkeynote - command line tool for keynote operations
SYNOPSISkeynote keygen AlgorithmName KeySize PublicKeyFile PrivateKeyFile
[print-offset] [print-length]
keynote sign [-v] AlgorithmName AssertionFile PrivateKeyFile [print-
offset] [print-length]
keynote sigver [AssertionFile]
keynote verify [-h] [-e file] -l file -r retlist [-k file] [-l file]
[file ...]
DESCRIPTION
For more details on KeyNote, see RFC 2704.
KEY GENERATIONkeynote keygen creates a public/private key of size KeySize (in bits),
for the algorithm specified by AlgorithmName. Typical keysizes are 512,
1024, or 2048 (bits). The minimum key size for DSA keys is 512 (bits).
Supported AlgorithmName identifiers are:
dsa-hex:
dsa-base64:
rsa-hex:
rsa-base64:
Notice that the trailing colon is required. The resulting public key is
stored in file PublicKeyFile. Similarly, the resulting private key is
stored in file PrivateKeyFile. Either of the filenames can be specified
to be '-', in which case the corresponding key(s) will be printed to
standard output.
The optional parameters print-offset and print-length specify the offset
from the beginning of the line where the key will be printed, and the
number of characters of the key that will be printed per line. print-
length includes AlgorithmName for the first line and has to be longer (by
at least 2) than AlgorithmName. print-length also accounts for the line-
continuation character (backslash) at the end of each line, and the dou-
ble quotes at the beginning and end of the key encoding. Default values
are 12 and 50 respectively.
ASSERTION SIGNINGkeynote sign reads the assertion contained in AssertionFile and generates
a signature specified by AlgorithmName using the private key stored in
PrivateKeyFile. The private key is expected to be of the form output by
keynote keygen. The private key algorithm and the AlgorithmName specified
as an argument are expected to match. There is no requirement for the
internal or ASCII encodings to match. Valid AlgorithmName identifiers
are:
sig-dsa-sha1-hex:
sig-dsa-sha1-base64:
sig-rsa-sha1-hex:
sig-rsa-sha1-base64:
sig-rsa-md5-hex:
sig-rsa-md5-base64:
sig-x509-sha1-hex:
sig-x509-sha1-base64:
Notice that the trailing colon is required. The resulting signature is
printed to standard output. This can then be added (via cut-and-paste or
some script) at the end of the assertion, in the Signature field.
The public key corresponding to the private key in PrivateKeyFile is ex-
pected to already be included in the Authorizer field of the assertion,
either directly or indirectly (i.e., through use of a Local-Constants at-
tribute). Furthermore, the assertion must have a Signature field (even if
it is empty), as the signature is computed on everything between the
KeyNote-Version and Signature keywords (inclusive), and the AlgorithmName
string.
If the -v flag is provided, keynote sign will also verify the newly-
created signature using the Authorizer field key.
The optional parameters print-offset and print-length specify the offset
from the beginning of the line where the signature will be printed, and
the number of characters of the signature that will be printed per line.
print-length includes AlgorithmName for the first line and has to be
longer (by at least 2) than AlgorithmName. print-length also accounts for
the line-continuation character (backslash) at the end of each line, and
the double quotes at the beginning and end of the signature encoding. De-
fault values are 12 and 50 respectively.
SIGNATURE VERIFICATIONkeynote sigver reads the assertions contained in AssertionFile and veri-
fies the public-key signatures on all of them.
QUERY TOOL
For each operand that names a file, keynote verify reads the file and
parses the assertions contained therein (one assertion per file).
The options are as follows:
-e file Specify a file containing environment variables and their
values, in the following format:
varname = "value"
varname can begin with any letter (upper or lower case) or
number, and can contain underscores. value is a quoted string,
and can contain any character, and escape (backslash) processing
is performed, as specified in the KeyNote RFC.
-h Print a usage message and exit.
-k file Add a key from file in the action authorizers.
-l file Specify a file containing trusted assertions (no signature ve-
rification is performed), and the Authorizer field can contain
non-key principals. There should be at least one assertion with
the POLICY keyword in the Authorizer field.
-r retlist
Specify a comma-separated list of return values, in increasing
order of compliance from left to right.
Exactly one -r and at least one each of the -e, -l, and -k flags should
be given per invocation. If no flags are given, keynote verify prints the
usage message and exits with error code -1.
keynote verify exits with code -1 if there was an error, and 0 on suc-
cess.
SEE ALSOkeynote(3), keynote(4), keynote(5)
M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and A. D. Keromytis, The KeyNote Trust-
Management System, Version 2, RFC 2704, 1999.
M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and J. Lacy, "Decentralized Trust Management",
IEEE Conference on Privacy and Security, 1996.
M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and M. Strauss, "Compliance-Checking in the
PolicyMaker Trust Management System", Financial Crypto Conference, 1998.
AUTHORS
Angelos D. Keromytis <angelos@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
WEB PAGE
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~keynote
BUGS
None that we know of. If you find any, please report them at
<keynote@research.att.com>.
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