Hi again,
On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 07:29:30 PM Kai Engert wrote:
> I haven't worked on the lowlevel code myself yet, so I'm not sure how
> exactly it works.
>
> But I just had a look at PSM code nsSDR.cpp, and I'm learning that
> "secret decoder ring" appears to be a functionality provided by NSS,
> because I see functions with prefix PK11SDR
>
> There is another NSS tool named "sdrtest". Maybe that tool can help you?
>
> After preparing a fresh database, I ran:
> sdrtest -t foo -d /tmp/sdr/ -o /tmp/bar
Even though this command creates key3.db and initializes it with an encryption
key, it seems that the encrypting function of this utility totally ignores the
created key.
At sdrtest.c:
...........................
SECItem keyid = { 0, 0, 0 };
^^^^^^
SECItem outBuf = { 0, 0, 0 };
PK11SlotInfo *slot = NULL;
/* sigh, initialize the key database */
slot = PK11_GetInternalKeySlot();
if (slot && PK11_NeedUserInit(slot)) {
switch (pwdata.source) {
case PW_FROMFILE:
rv = SECU_ChangePW(slot, 0, pwdata.data);
break;
case PW_PLAINTEXT:
rv = SECU_ChangePW(slot, pwdata.data, 0);
break;
default:
rv = SECU_ChangePW(slot, "", 0);
break;
}
if (rv != SECSuccess) {
SECU_PrintError(program_name, "Failed to initialize slot \"%s\"",
PK11_GetSlotName(slot));
return SECFailure;
}
}
if (slot) {
PK11_FreeSlot(slot);
}
rv = PK11SDR_Encrypt(&keyid, &data, &result, &pwdata);
^^^^^
...........................
Now if we look at ine 195 here
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/fips/nss-source/mozilla/security/nss/lib/pk11wrap/pk11sdr.c.html
it will see that keyid = { 0, 0, 0 } will have libnss use an internal predefine
key, instead of the one contained in -d DATABASEDIR
Am I seeing this right?
I noticed this as I tried to use sdrtest to encrypt credentials instead of the
python script I have currently, and the saved credentials were allways rejected
by Thunderbird.
What do you think?
Cheers
Gustavo
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