@c Copyright (C) 2002 Klar"alvdalens Datakonsult AB @c Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 g10 Code GmbH @c This is part of the GnuPG manual. @c For copying conditions, see the file gnupg.texi. @include defs.inc @node Invoking DIRMNGR @chapter Invoking DIRMNGR @cindex DIRMNGR command options @cindex command options @cindex options, DIRMNGR command @manpage dirmngr.8 @ifset manverb .B dirmngr \- CRL and OCSP daemon @end ifset @mansect synopsis @ifset manverb .B dirmngr .RI [ options ] .I command .RI [ args ] @end ifset @mansect description Since version 2.1 of GnuPG, @command{dirmngr} takes care of accessing the OpenPGP keyservers. As with previous versions it is also used as a server for managing and downloading certificate revocation lists (CRLs) for X.509 certificates, downloading X.509 certificates, and providing access to OCSP providers. Dirmngr is invoked internally by @command{gpg}, @command{gpgsm}, or via the @command{gpg-connect-agent} tool. @manpause @noindent @xref{Option Index},for an index to @command{DIRMNGR}'s commands and options. @mancont @menu * Dirmngr Commands:: List of all commands. * Dirmngr Options:: List of all options. * Dirmngr Configuration:: Configuration files. * Dirmngr Signals:: Use of signals. * Dirmngr Examples:: Some usage examples. * Dirmngr Protocol:: The protocol dirmngr uses. @end menu @node Dirmngr Commands @section Commands @mansect commands Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that only one command is allowed. @table @gnupgtabopt @item --version @opindex version Print the program version and licensing information. Note that you cannot abbreviate this command. @item --help, -h @opindex help Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options. Note that you cannot abbreviate this command. @item --dump-options @opindex dump-options Print a list of all available options and commands. Note that you cannot abbreviate this command. @item --server @opindex server Run in server mode and wait for commands on the @code{stdin}. The default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there. This is only used for testing. @item --daemon @opindex daemon Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket. This is the way @command{dirmngr} is started on demand by the other GnuPG components. To force starting @command{dirmngr} it is in general best to use @code{gpgconf --launch dirmngr}. @item --supervised @opindex supervised Run in the foreground, sending logs to stderr, and listening on file descriptor 3, which must already be bound to a listening socket. This is useful when running under systemd or other similar process supervision schemes. This option is not supported on Windows. @item --list-crls @opindex list-crls List the contents of the CRL cache on @code{stdout}. This is probably only useful for debugging purposes. @item --load-crl @var{file} @opindex load-crl This command requires a filename as additional argument, and it will make Dirmngr try to import the CRL in @var{file} into it's cache. Note, that this is only possible if Dirmngr is able to retrieve the CA's certificate directly by its own means. In general it is better to use @code{gpgsm}'s @code{--call-dirmngr loadcrl filename} command so that @code{gpgsm} can help dirmngr. @item --fetch-crl @var{url} @opindex fetch-crl This command requires an URL as additional argument, and it will make dirmngr try to retrieve and import the CRL from that @var{url} into it's cache. This is mainly useful for debugging purposes. The @command{dirmngr-client} provides the same feature for a running dirmngr. @item --shutdown @opindex shutdown This commands shuts down an running instance of Dirmngr. This command has currently no effect. @item --flush @opindex flush This command removes all CRLs from Dirmngr's cache. Client requests will thus trigger reading of fresh CRLs. @end table @mansect options @node Dirmngr Options @section Option Summary Note that all long options with the exception of @option{--options} and @option{--homedir} may also be given in the configuration file after stripping off the two leading dashes. @table @gnupgtabopt @item --options @var{file} @opindex options Reads configuration from @var{file} instead of from the default per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named @file{dirmngr.conf} and expected in the home directory. @item --homedir @var{dir} @opindex options Set the name of the home directory to @var{dir}. This option is only effective when used on the command line. The default is the directory named @file{.gnupg} directly below the home directory of the user unless the environment variable @code{GNUPGHOME} has been set in which case its value will be used. Many kinds of data are stored within this directory. @item -v @item --verbose @opindex v @opindex verbose Outputs additional information while running. You can increase the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to @sc{dirmngr}, such as @option{-vv}. @item --log-file @var{file} @opindex log-file Append all logging output to @var{file}. This is very helpful in seeing what the agent actually does. Use @file{socket://} to log to socket. @item --debug-level @var{level} @opindex debug-level Select the debug level for investigating problems. @var{level} may be a numeric value or by a keyword: @table @code @item none No debugging at all. A value of less than 1 may be used instead of the keyword. @item basic Some basic debug messages. A value between 1 and 2 may be used instead of the keyword. @item advanced More verbose debug messages. A value between 3 and 5 may be used instead of the keyword. @item expert Even more detailed messages. A value between 6 and 8 may be used instead of the keyword. @item guru All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8 may be used instead of the keyword. The creation of hash tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used. @end table How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging. @item --debug @var{flags} @opindex debug Set debugging flags. This option is only useful for debugging and its behavior may change with a new release. All flags are or-ed and may be given in C syntax (e.g. 0x0042) or as a comma separated list of flag names. To get a list of all supported flags the single word "help" can be used. @item --debug-all @opindex debug-all Same as @code{--debug=0xffffffff} @item --tls-debug @var{level} @opindex tls-debug Enable debugging of the TLS layer at @var{level}. The details of the debug level depend on the used TLS library and are not set in stone. @item --debug-wait @var{n} @opindex debug-wait When running in server mode, wait @var{n} seconds before entering the actual processing loop and print the pid. This gives time to attach a debugger. @item --disable-check-own-socket @opindex disable-check-own-socket On some platforms @command{dirmngr} is able to detect the removal of its socket file and shutdown itself. This option disable this self-test for debugging purposes. @item -s @itemx --sh @itemx -c @itemx --csh @opindex s @opindex sh @opindex c @opindex csh Format the info output in daemon mode for use with the standard Bourne shell respective the C-shell. The default is to guess it based on the environment variable @code{SHELL} which is in almost all cases sufficient. @item --force @opindex force Enabling this option forces loading of expired CRLs; this is only useful for debugging. @item --use-tor @itemx --no-use-tor @opindex use-tor @opindex no-use-tor The option @option{--use-tor} switches Dirmngr and thus GnuPG into ``Tor mode'' to route all network access via Tor (an anonymity network). Certain other features are disabled in this mode. The effect of @option{--use-tor} cannot be overridden by any other command or even by reloading dirmngr. The use of @option{--no-use-tor} disables the use of Tor. The default is to use Tor if it is available on startup or after reloading dirmngr. @item --standard-resolver @opindex standard-resolver This option forces the use of the system's standard DNS resolver code. This is mainly used for debugging. Note that on Windows a standard resolver is not used and all DNS access will return the error ``Not Implemented'' if this option is used. Using this together with enabled Tor mode returns the error ``Not Enabled''. @item --recursive-resolver @opindex recursive-resolver When possible use a recursive resolver instead of a stub resolver. @item --resolver-timeout @var{n} @opindex resolver-timeout Set the timeout for the DNS resolver to N seconds. The default are 30 seconds. @item --connect-timeout @var{n} @item --connect-quick-timeout @var{n} @opindex connect-timeout @opindex connect-quick-timeout Set the timeout for HTTP and generic TCP connection attempts to N seconds. The value set with the quick variant is used when the --quick option has been given to certain Assuan commands. The quick value is capped at the value of the regular connect timeout. The default values are 15 and 2 seconds. Note that the timeout values are for each connection attempt; the connection code will attempt to connect all addresses listed for a server. @item --listen-backlog @var{n} @opindex listen-backlog Set the size of the queue for pending connections. The default is 64. @item --allow-version-check @opindex allow-version-check Allow Dirmngr to connect to @code{https://versions.gnupg.org} to get the list of current software versions. If this option is enabled the list is retrieved in case the local copy does not exist or is older than 5 to 7 days. See the option @option{--query-swdb} of the command @command{gpgconf} for more details. Note, that regardless of this option a version check can always be triggered using this command: @example gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'loadswdb --force' /bye @end example @item --keyserver @var{name} @opindex keyserver Use @var{name} as your keyserver. This is the server that @command{gpg} communicates with to receive keys, send keys, and search for keys. The format of the @var{name} is a URI: `scheme:[//]keyservername[:port]' The scheme is the type of keyserver: "hkp" for the HTTP (or compatible) keyservers, "ldap" for the LDAP keyservers, or "mailto" for the Graff email keyserver. Note that your particular installation of GnuPG may have other keyserver types available as well. Keyserver schemes are case-insensitive. After the keyserver name, optional keyserver configuration options may be provided. These are the same as the @option{--keyserver-options} of @command{gpg}, but apply only to this particular keyserver. Most keyservers synchronize with each other, so there is generally no need to send keys to more than one server. The keyserver @code{hkp://keys.gnupg.net} uses round robin DNS to give a different keyserver each time you use it. If exactly two keyservers are configured and only one is a Tor hidden service (.onion), Dirmngr selects the keyserver to use depending on whether Tor is locally running or not. The check for a running Tor is done for each new connection. If no keyserver is explicitly configured, dirmngr will use the built-in default of @code{hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net}. Windows users with a keyserver running on their Active Directory should use @code{ldap:///} for @var{name} to access this directory. For accessing anonymous LDAP keyservers @var{name} is in general just a @code{ldaps://ldap.example.com}. A BaseDN parameter should never be specified. If authentication is required the value of @var{name} is for example: @example keyserver ldaps://ldap.example.com/????bindname=uid=USERNAME %2Cou=GnuPG%20Users%2Cdc=example%2Cdc=com,password=PASSWORD @end example Put this all on one line without any spaces and keep the '%2C' as given. Replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, and the 'dc' parts according to the instructions received from the LDAP administrator. Note that only simple authentication (i.e. cleartext passwords) is supported and thus using ldaps is strongly suggested. @item --nameserver @var{ipaddr} @opindex nameserver In ``Tor mode'' Dirmngr uses a public resolver via Tor to resolve DNS names. If the default public resolver, which is @code{8.8.8.8}, shall not be used a different one can be given using this option. Note that a numerical IP address must be given (IPv6 or IPv4) and that no error checking is done for @var{ipaddr}. @item --disable-ipv4 @item --disable-ipv6 @opindex disable-ipv4 @opindex disable-ipv6 Disable the use of all IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. @item --disable-ldap @opindex disable-ldap Entirely disables the use of LDAP. @item --disable-http @opindex disable-http Entirely disables the use of HTTP. @item --ignore-http-dp @opindex ignore-http-dp When looking for the location of a CRL, the to be tested certificate usually contains so called @dfn{CRL Distribution Point} (DP) entries which are URLs describing the way to access the CRL. The first found DP entry is used. With this option all entries using the @acronym{HTTP} scheme are ignored when looking for a suitable DP. @item --ignore-ldap-dp @opindex ignore-ldap-dp This is similar to @option{--ignore-http-dp} but ignores entries using the @acronym{LDAP} scheme. Both options may be combined resulting in ignoring DPs entirely. @item --ignore-ocsp-service-url @opindex ignore-ocsp-service-url Ignore all OCSP URLs contained in the certificate. The effect is to force the use of the default responder. @item --honor-http-proxy @opindex honor-http-proxy If the environment variable @env{http_proxy} has been set, use its value to access HTTP servers. @item --http-proxy @var{host}[:@var{port}] @opindex http-proxy @efindex http_proxy Use @var{host} and @var{port} to access HTTP servers. The use of this option overrides the environment variable @env{http_proxy} regardless whether @option{--honor-http-proxy} has been set. @item --ldap-proxy @var{host}[:@var{port}] @opindex ldap-proxy Use @var{host} and @var{port} to connect to LDAP servers. If @var{port} is omitted, port 389 (standard LDAP port) is used. This overrides any specified host and port part in a LDAP URL and will also be used if host and port have been omitted from the URL. @item --only-ldap-proxy @opindex only-ldap-proxy Never use anything else but the LDAP "proxy" as configured with @option{--ldap-proxy}. Usually @command{dirmngr} tries to use other configured LDAP server if the connection using the "proxy" failed. @item --ldapserverlist-file @var{file} @opindex ldapserverlist-file Read the list of LDAP servers to consult for CRLs and certificates from file instead of the default per-user ldap server list file. The default value for @var{file} is @file{dirmngr_ldapservers.conf}. This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the format @sc{hostname:port:username:password:base_dn} Lines starting with a @samp{#} are comments. Note that as usual all strings entered are expected to be UTF-8 encoded. Obviously this will lead to problems if the password has originally been encoded as Latin-1. There is no other solution here than to put such a password in the binary encoding into the file (i.e. non-ascii characters won't show up readable).@footnote{The @command{gpgconf} tool might be helpful for frontends as it enables editing this configuration file using percent-escaped strings.} @item --ldaptimeout @var{secs} @opindex ldaptimeout Specify the number of seconds to wait for an LDAP query before timing out. The default are 15 seconds. 0 will never timeout. @item --add-servers @opindex add-servers This option makes dirmngr add any servers it discovers when validating certificates against CRLs to the internal list of servers to consult for certificates and CRLs. This option is useful when trying to validate a certificate that has a CRL distribution point that points to a server that is not already listed in the ldapserverlist. Dirmngr will always go to this server and try to download the CRL, but chances are high that the certificate used to sign the CRL is located on the same server. So if dirmngr doesn't add that new server to list, it will often not be able to verify the signature of the CRL unless the @code{--add-servers} option is used. Note: The current version of dirmngr has this option disabled by default. @item --allow-ocsp @opindex allow-ocsp This option enables OCSP support if requested by the client. OCSP requests are rejected by default because they may violate the privacy of the user; for example it is possible to track the time when a user is reading a mail. @item --ocsp-responder @var{url} @opindex ocsp-responder Use @var{url} as the default OCSP Responder if the certificate does not contain information about an assigned responder. Note, that @code{--ocsp-signer} must also be set to a valid certificate. @item --ocsp-signer @var{fpr}|@var{file} @opindex ocsp-signer Use the certificate with the fingerprint @var{fpr} to check the responses of the default OCSP Responder. Alternatively a filename can be given in which case the response is expected to be signed by one of the certificates described in that file. Any argument which contains a slash, dot or tilde is considered a filename. Usual filename expansion takes place: A tilde at the start followed by a slash is replaced by the content of @env{HOME}, no slash at start describes a relative filename which will be searched at the home directory. To make sure that the @var{file} is searched in the home directory, either prepend the name with "./" or use a name which contains a dot. If a response has been signed by a certificate described by these fingerprints no further check upon the validity of this certificate is done. The format of the @var{FILE} is a list of SHA-1 fingerprint, one per line with optional colons between the bytes. Empty lines and lines prefix with a hash mark are ignored. @item --ocsp-max-clock-skew @var{n} @opindex ocsp-max-clock-skew The number of seconds a skew between the OCSP responder and them local clock is accepted. Default is 600 (10 minutes). @item --ocsp-max-period @var{n} @opindex ocsp-max-period Seconds a response is at maximum considered valid after the time given in the thisUpdate field. Default is 7776000 (90 days). @item --ocsp-current-period @var{n} @opindex ocsp-current-period The number of seconds an OCSP response is considered valid after the time given in the NEXT_UPDATE datum. Default is 10800 (3 hours). @item --max-replies @var{n} @opindex max-replies Do not return more that @var{n} items in one query. The default is 10. @item --ignore-cert-extension @var{oid} @opindex ignore-cert-extension Add @var{oid} to the list of ignored certificate extensions. The @var{oid} is expected to be in dotted decimal form, like @code{2.5.29.3}. This option may be used more than once. Critical flagged certificate extensions matching one of the OIDs in the list are treated as if they are actually handled and thus the certificate won't be rejected due to an unknown critical extension. Use this option with care because extensions are usually flagged as critical for a reason. @item --hkp-cacert @var{file} Use the root certificates in @var{file} for verification of the TLS certificates used with @code{hkps} (keyserver access over TLS). If the file is in PEM format a suffix of @code{.pem} is expected for @var{file}. This option may be given multiple times to add more root certificates. Tilde expansion is supported. If no @code{hkp-cacert} directive is present, dirmngr will make a reasonable choice: if the keyserver in question is the special pool @code{hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net}, it will use the bundled root certificate for that pool. Otherwise, it will use the system CAs. @end table @c @c Dirmngr Configuration @c @mansect files @node Dirmngr Configuration @section Configuration Dirmngr makes use of several directories when running in daemon mode: There are a few configuration files whih control the operation of dirmngr. By default they may all be found in the current home directory (@pxref{option --homedir}). @table @file @item dirmngr.conf @efindex dirmngr.conf This is the standard configuration file read by @command{dirmngr} on startup. It may contain any valid long option; the leading two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated. This file is also read after a @code{SIGHUP} however not all options will actually have an effect. This default name may be changed on the command line (@pxref{option --options}). You should backup this file. @item /etc/gnupg/trusted-certs This directory should be filled with certificates of Root CAs you are trusting in checking the CRLs and signing OCSP Responses. Usually these are the same certificates you use with the applications making use of dirmngr. It is expected that each of these certificate files contain exactly one @acronym{DER} encoded certificate in a file with the suffix @file{.crt} or @file{.der}. @command{dirmngr} reads those certificates on startup and when given a SIGHUP. Certificates which are not readable or do not make up a proper X.509 certificate are ignored; see the log file for details. Applications using dirmngr (e.g. gpgsm) can request these certificates to complete a trust chain in the same way as with the extra-certs directory (see below). Note that for OCSP responses the certificate specified using the option @option{--ocsp-signer} is always considered valid to sign OCSP requests. @item /etc/gnupg/extra-certs This directory may contain extra certificates which are preloaded into the internal cache on startup. Applications using dirmngr (e.g. gpgsm) can request cached certificates to complete a trust chain. This is convenient in cases you have a couple intermediate CA certificates or certificates usually used to sign OCSP responses. These certificates are first tried before going out to the net to look for them. These certificates must also be @acronym{DER} encoded and suffixed with @file{.crt} or @file{.der}. @item ~/.gnupg/crls.d This directory is used to store cached CRLs. The @file{crls.d} part will be created by dirmngr if it does not exists but you need to make sure that the upper directory exists. @end table @manpause To be able to see what's going on you should create the configure file @file{~/gnupg/dirmngr.conf} with at least one line: @example log-file ~/dirmngr.log @end example To be able to perform OCSP requests you probably want to add the line: @example allow-ocsp @end example To make sure that new options are read and that after the installation of a new GnuPG versions the installed dirmngr is running, you may want to kill an existing dirmngr first: @example gpgconf --kill dirmngr @end example You may check the log file to see whether all desired root certificates have been loaded correctly. @c @c Dirmngr Signals @c @mansect signals @node Dirmngr Signals @section Use of signals A running @command{dirmngr} may be controlled by signals, i.e. using the @command{kill} command to send a signal to the process. Here is a list of supported signals: @table @gnupgtabopt @item SIGHUP @cpindex SIGHUP This signal flushes all internally cached CRLs as well as any cached certificates. Then the certificate cache is reinitialized as on startup. Options are re-read from the configuration file. Instead of sending this signal it is better to use @example gpgconf --reload dirmngr @end example @item SIGTERM @cpindex SIGTERM Shuts down the process but waits until all current requests are fulfilled. If the process has received 3 of these signals and requests are still pending, a shutdown is forced. You may also use @example gpgconf --kill dirmngr @end example instead of this signal @item SIGINT @cpindex SIGINT Shuts down the process immediately. @item SIGUSR1 @cpindex SIGUSR1 This prints some caching statistics to the log file. @end table @c @c Examples @c @mansect examples @node Dirmngr Examples @section Examples Here is an example on how to show dirmngr's internal table of OpenPGP keyserver addresses. The output is intended for debugging purposes and not part of a defined API. @example gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'keyserver --hosttable' /bye @end example To inhibit the use of a particular host you have noticed in one of the keyserver pools, you may use @example gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'keyserver --dead pgpkeys.bnd.de' /bye @end example The description of the @code{keyserver} command can be printed using @example gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'help keyserver' /bye @end example @c @c Assuan Protocol @c @manpause @node Dirmngr Protocol @section Dirmngr's Assuan Protocol Assuan is the IPC protocol used to access dirmngr. This is a description of the commands implemented by dirmngr. @menu * Dirmngr LOOKUP:: Look up a certificate via LDAP * Dirmngr ISVALID:: Validate a certificate using a CRL or OCSP. * Dirmngr CHECKCRL:: Validate a certificate using a CRL. * Dirmngr CHECKOCSP:: Validate a certificate using OCSP. * Dirmngr CACHECERT:: Put a certificate into the internal cache. * Dirmngr VALIDATE:: Validate a certificate for debugging. @end menu @node Dirmngr LOOKUP @subsection Return the certificate(s) found Lookup certificate. To allow multiple patterns (which are ORed) quoting is required: Spaces are to be translated into "+" or into "%20"; obviously this requires that the usual escape quoting rules are applied. The server responds with: @example S: D S: END S: D S: END S: OK @end example In this example 2 certificates are returned. The server may return any number of certificates; OK will also be returned when no certificates were found. The dirmngr might return a status line @example S: S TRUNCATED @end example To indicate that the output was truncated to N items due to a limitation of the server or by an arbitrary set limit. The option @option{--url} may be used if instead of a search pattern a complete URL to the certificate is known: @example C: LOOKUP --url CN%3DWerner%20Koch,o%3DIntevation%20GmbH,c%3DDE?userCertificate @end example If the option @option{--cache-only} is given, no external lookup is done so that only certificates from the cache are returned. With the option @option{--single}, the first and only the first match will be returned. Unless option @option{--cache-only} is also used, no local lookup will be done in this case. @node Dirmngr ISVALID @subsection Validate a certificate using a CRL or OCSP @example ISVALID [--only-ocsp] [--force-default-responder] @var{certid}|@var{certfpr} @end example Check whether the certificate described by the @var{certid} has been revoked. Due to caching, the Dirmngr is able to answer immediately in most cases. The @var{certid} is a hex encoded string consisting of two parts, delimited by a single dot. The first part is the SHA-1 hash of the issuer name and the second part the serial number. Alternatively the certificate's SHA-1 fingerprint @var{certfpr} may be given in which case an OCSP request is done before consulting the CRL. If the option @option{--only-ocsp} is given, no fallback to a CRL check will be used. If the option @option{--force-default-responder} is given, only the default OCSP responder will be used and any other methods of obtaining an OCSP responder URL won't be used. @noindent Common return values are: @table @code @item GPG_ERR_NO_ERROR (0) This is the positive answer: The certificate is not revoked and we have an up-to-date revocation list for that certificate. If OCSP was used the responder confirmed that the certificate has not been revoked. @item GPG_ERR_CERT_REVOKED This is the negative answer: The certificate has been revoked. Either it is in a CRL and that list is up to date or an OCSP responder informed us that it has been revoked. @item GPG_ERR_NO_CRL_KNOWN No CRL is known for this certificate or the CRL is not valid or out of date. @item GPG_ERR_NO_DATA The OCSP responder returned an ``unknown'' status. This means that it is not aware of the certificate's status. @item GPG_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED This is commonly seen if OCSP support has not been enabled in the configuration. @end table If DirMngr has not enough information about the given certificate (which is the case for not yet cached certificates), it will inquire the missing data: @example S: INQUIRE SENDCERT C: D C: END @end example A client should be aware that DirMngr may ask for more than one certificate. If Dirmngr has a certificate but the signature of the certificate could not been validated because the root certificate is not known to dirmngr as trusted, it may ask back to see whether the client trusts this the root certificate: @example S: INQUIRE ISTRUSTED C: D 1 C: END @end example Only this answer will let Dirmngr consider the certificate as valid. @node Dirmngr CHECKCRL @subsection Validate a certificate using a CRL Check whether the certificate with FINGERPRINT (SHA-1 hash of the entire X.509 certificate blob) is valid or not by consulting the CRL responsible for this certificate. If the fingerprint has not been given or the certificate is not known, the function inquires the certificate using: @example S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT C: D C: END @end example Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request (which should match FINGERPRINT) as a binary blob. Processing then takes place without further interaction; in particular dirmngr tries to locate other required certificate by its own mechanism which includes a local certificate store as well as a list of trusted root certificates. @noindent The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been revoked or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error. @node Dirmngr CHECKOCSP @subsection Validate a certificate using OCSP @example CHECKOCSP [--force-default-responder] [@var{fingerprint}] @end example Check whether the certificate with @var{fingerprint} (the SHA-1 hash of the entire X.509 certificate blob) is valid by consulting the appropriate OCSP responder. If the fingerprint has not been given or the certificate is not known by Dirmngr, the function inquires the certificate using: @example S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT C: D C: END @end example Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request (which should match @var{fingerprint}) as a binary blob. Processing then takes place without further interaction; in particular dirmngr tries to locate other required certificates by its own mechanism which includes a local certificate store as well as a list of trusted root certificates. If the option @option{--force-default-responder} is given, only the default OCSP responder is used. This option is the per-command variant of the global option @option{--ignore-ocsp-service-url}. @noindent The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been revoked or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error. @node Dirmngr CACHECERT @subsection Put a certificate into the internal cache Put a certificate into the internal cache. This command might be useful if a client knows in advance certificates required for a test and wants to make sure they get added to the internal cache. It is also helpful for debugging. To get the actual certificate, this command immediately inquires it using @example S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT C: D C: END @end example Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request as a binary blob. @noindent The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been successfully cached or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error. @node Dirmngr VALIDATE @subsection Validate a certificate for debugging Validate a certificate using the certificate validation function used internally by dirmngr. This command is only useful for debugging. To get the actual certificate, this command immediately inquires it using @example S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT C: D C: END @end example Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request as a binary blob. @mansect see also @ifset isman @command{gpgsm}(1), @command{dirmngr-client}(1) @end ifset @include see-also-note.texi @c @c !!! UNDER CONSTRUCTION !!! @c @c @c @section Verifying a Certificate @c @c There are several ways to request services from Dirmngr. Almost all of @c them are done using the Assuan protocol. What we describe here is the @c Assuan command CHECKCRL as used for example by the dirmnr-client tool if @c invoked as @c @c @example @c dirmngr-client foo.crt @c @end example @c @c This command will send an Assuan request to an already running Dirmngr @c instance. foo.crt is expected to be a standard X.509 certificate and @c dirmngr will receive the Assuan command @c @c @example @c CHECKCRL @var [{fingerprint}] @c @end example @c @c @var{fingerprint} is optional and expected to be the SHA-1 has of the @c DER encoding of the certificate under question. It is to be HEX @c encoded. The rationale for sending the fingerprint is that it allows @c dirmngr to reply immediately if it has already cached such a request. If @c this is not the case and no certificate has been found in dirmngr's @c internal certificate storage, dirmngr will request the certificate using @c the Assuan inquiry @c @c @example @c INQUIRE TARGETCERT @c @end example @c @c The caller (in our example dirmngr-client) is then expected to return @c the certificate for the request (which should match @var{fingerprint}) @c as a binary blob. @c @c Dirmngr now passes control to @code{crl_cache_cert_isvalid}. This @c function checks whether a CRL item exists for target certificate. These @c CRL items are kept in a database of already loaded and verified CRLs. @c This mechanism is called the CRL cache. Obviously timestamps are kept @c there with each item to cope with the expiration date of the CRL. The @c possible return values are: @code{0} to indicate that a valid CRL is @c available for the certificate and the certificate itself is not listed @c in this CRL, @code{GPG_ERR_CERT_REVOKED} to indicate that the certificate is @c listed in the CRL or @code{GPG_ERR_NO_CRL_KNOWN} in cases where no CRL or no @c information is available. The first two codes are immediately returned to @c the caller and the processing of this request has been done. @c @c Only the @code{GPG_ERR_NO_CRL_KNOWN} needs more attention: Dirmngr now @c calls @code{clr_cache_reload_crl} and if this succeeds calls @c @code{crl_cache_cert_isvald) once more. All further errors are @c immediately returned to the caller. @c @c @code{crl_cache_reload_crl} is the actual heart of the CRL management. @c It locates the corresponding CRL for the target certificate, reads and @c verifies this CRL and stores it in the CRL cache. It works like this: @c @c * Loop over all crlDPs in the target certificate. @c * If the crlDP is invalid immediately terminate the loop. @c * Loop over all names in the current crlDP. @c * If the URL scheme is unknown or not enabled @c (--ignore-http-dp, --ignore-ldap-dp) continues with @c the next name. @c * @code{crl_fetch} is called to actually retrieve the CRL. @c In case of problems this name is ignore and we continue with @c the next name. Note that @code{crl_fetch} does only return @c a descriptor for the CRL for further reading so does the CRL @c does not yet end up in memory. @c * @code{crl_cache_insert} is called with that descriptor to @c actually read the CRL into the cache. See below for a @c description of this function. If there is any error (e.g. read @c problem, CRL not correctly signed or verification of signature @c not possible), this descriptor is rejected and we continue @c with the next name. If the CRL has been successfully loaded, @c the loop is terminated. @c * If no crlDP has been found in the previous loop use a default CRL. @c Note, that if any crlDP has been found but loading of the CRL failed, @c this condition is not true. @c * Try to load a CRL from all configured servers (ldapservers.conf) @c in turn. The first server returning a CRL is used. @c * @code(crl_cache_insert) is then used to actually insert the CRL @c into the cache. If this failed we give up immediately without @c checking the rest of the servers from the first step. @c * Ready. @c @c @c The @code{crl_cache_insert} function takes care of reading the bulk of @c the CRL, parsing it and checking the signature. It works like this: A @c new database file is created using a temporary file name. The CRL @c parsing machinery is started and all items of the CRL are put into @c this database file. At the end the issuer certificate of the CRL @c needs to be retrieved. Three cases are to be distinguished: @c @c a) An authorityKeyIdentifier with an issuer and serialno exits: The @c certificate is retrieved using @code{find_cert_bysn}. If @c the certificate is in the certificate cache, it is directly @c returned. Then the requester (i.e. the client who requested the @c CRL check) is asked via the Assuan inquiry ``SENDCERT'' whether @c he can provide this certificate. If this succeed the returned @c certificate gets cached and returned. Note, that dirmngr does not @c verify in any way whether the expected certificate is returned. @c It is in the interest of the client to return a useful certificate @c as otherwise the service request will fail due to a bad signature. @c The last way to get the certificate is by looking it up at @c external resources. This is done using the @code{ca_cert_fetch} @c and @code{fetch_next_ksba_cert} and comparing the returned @c certificate to match the requested issuer and seriano (This is @c needed because the LDAP layer may return several certificates as @c LDAP as no standard way to retrieve by serial number). @c @c b) An authorityKeyIdentifier with a key ID exists: The certificate is @c retrieved using @code{find_cert_bysubject}. If the certificate is @c in the certificate cache, it is directly returned. Then the @c requester is asked via the Assuan inquiry ``SENDCERT_SKI'' whether @c he can provide this certificate. If this succeed the returned @c certificate gets cached and returned. Note, that dirmngr does not @c verify in any way whether the expected certificate is returned. @c It is in the interest of the client to return a useful certificate @c as otherwise the service request will fail due to a bad signature. @c The last way to get the certificate is by looking it up at @c external resources. This is done using the @code{ca_cert_fetch} @c and @code{fetch_next_ksba_cert} and comparing the returned @c certificate to match the requested subject and key ID. @c @c c) No authorityKeyIdentifier exits: The certificate is retrieved @c using @code{find_cert_bysubject} without the key ID argument. If @c the certificate is in the certificate cache the first one with a @c matching subject is directly returned. Then the requester is @c asked via the Assuan inquiry ``SENDCERT'' and an exact @c specification of the subject whether he can @c provide this certificate. If this succeed the returned @c certificate gets cached and returned. Note, that dirmngr does not @c verify in any way whether the expected certificate is returned. @c It is in the interest of the client to return a useful certificate @c as otherwise the service request will fail due to a bad signature. @c The last way to get the certificate is by looking it up at @c external resources. This is done using the @code{ca_cert_fetch} @c and @code{fetch_next_ksba_cert} and comparing the returned @c certificate to match the requested subject; the first certificate @c with a matching subject is then returned. @c @c If no certificate was found, the function returns with the error @c GPG_ERR_MISSING_CERT. Now the signature is verified. If this fails, @c the erro is returned. On success the @code{validate_cert_chain} is @c used to verify that the certificate is actually valid. @c @c Here we may encounter a recursive situation: @c @code{validate_cert_chain} needs to look at other certificates and @c also at CRLs to check whether these other certificates and well, the @c CRL issuer certificate itself are not revoked. FIXME: We need to make @c sure that @code{validate_cert_chain} does not try to lookup the CRL we @c are currently processing. This would be a catch-22 and may indicate a @c broken PKI. However, due to overlapping expiring times and imprecise @c clocks this may actually happen. @c @c For historical reasons the Assuan command ISVALID is a bit different @c to CHECKCRL but this is mainly due to different calling conventions. @c In the end the same fucntionality is used, albeit hidden by a couple @c of indirection and argument and result code mangling. It furthere @c ingetrages OCSP checking depending on options are the way it is @c called. GPGSM still uses this command but might eventuall switch over @c to CHECKCRL and CHECKOCSP so that ISVALID can be retired. @c @c @c @section Validating a certificate @c @c We describe here how the internal function @code{validate_cert_chain} @c works. Note that mainly testing purposes this functionality may be @c called directly using @cmd{dirmngr-client --validate @file{foo.crt}}. @c @c The function takes the target certificate and a mode argument as @c parameters and returns an error code and optionally the closes @c expiration time of all certificates in the chain. @c @c We first check that the certificate may be used for the requested @c purpose (i.e. OCSP or CRL signing). If this is not the case @c GPG_ERR_WRONG_KEY_USAGE is returned. @c @c The next step is to find the trust anchor (root certificate) and to @c assemble the chain in memory: Starting with the target certificate, @c the expiration time is checked against the current date, unknown @c critical extensions are detected and certificate policies are matched @c (We only allow 2.289.9.9 but I have no clue about that OID and from @c where I got it - it does not even seem to be assigned - debug cruft?). @c @c Now if this certificate is a self-signed one, we have reached the @c trust anchor. In this case we check that the signature is good, the @c certificate is allowed to act as a CA, that it is a trusted one (by @c checking whether it is has been put into the trusted-certs @c configuration directory) and finally prepend into to our list @c representing the certificate chain. This steps ends then. @c @c If it is not a self-signed certificate, we check that the chain won't @c get too long (current limit is 100), if this is the case we terminate @c with the error GPG_ERR_BAD_CERT_CHAIN. @c @c Now the issuer's certificate is looked up: If an @c authorityKeyIdentifier is available, this one is used to locate the @c certificate either using issuer and serialnumber or subject DN @c (i.e. the issuer's DN) and the keyID. The functions @c @code{find_cert_bysn) and @code{find_cert_bysubject} are used @c respectively. The have already been described above under the @c description of @code{crl_cache_insert}. If no certificate was found @c or with no authorityKeyIdentifier, only the cache is consulted using @c @code{get_cert_bysubject}. The latter is done under the assumption @c that a matching certificate has explicitly been put into the @c certificate cache. If the issuer's certificate could not be found, @c the validation terminates with the error code @code{GPG_ERR_MISSING_CERT}. @c @c If the issuer's certificate has been found, the signature of the @c actual certificate is checked and in case this fails the error @c #code{GPG_ERR_BAD_CERT_CHAIN} is returned. If the signature checks out, the @c maximum chain length of the issuing certificate is checked as well as @c the capability of the certificate (i.e. whether he may be used for @c certificate signing). Then the certificate is prepended to our list @c representing the certificate chain. Finally the loop is continued now @c with the issuer's certificate as the current certificate. @c @c After the end of the loop and if no error as been encountered @c (i.e. the certificate chain has been assempled correctly), a check is @c done whether any certificate expired or a critical policy has not been @c met. In any of these cases the validation terminates with an @c appropriate error. @c @c Finally the function @code{check_revocations} is called to verify no @c certificate in the assempled chain has been revoked: This is an @c recursive process because a CRL has to be checked for each certificate @c in the chain except for the root certificate, of which we already know @c that it is trusted and we avoid checking a CRL here due to common @c setup problems and the assumption that a revoked root certificate has @c been removed from the list of trusted certificates. @c @c @c @c @c @section Looking up certificates through LDAP. @c @c This describes the LDAP layer to retrieve certificates. @c the functions @code{ca_cert_fetch} and @code{fetch_next_ksba_cert} are @c used for this. The first one starts a search and the second one is @c used to retrieve certificate after certificate. @c