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+QEMU CCID Device Documentation.
+
+Contents
+1. USB CCID device
+2. Building
+3. Using ccid-card-emulated with hardware
+4. Using ccid-card-emulated with certificates
+5. Using ccid-card-passthru with client side hardware
+6. Using ccid-card-passthru with client side certificates
+7. Passthrough protocol scenario
+8. libcacard
+
+1. USB CCID device
+
+The USB CCID device is a USB device implementing the CCID specification, which
+lets one connect smart card readers that implement the same spec. For more
+information see the specification:
+
+ Universal Serial Bus
+ Device Class: Smart Card
+ CCID
+ Specification for
+ Integrated Circuit(s) Cards Interface Devices
+ Revision 1.1
+ April 22rd, 2005
+
+Smartcards are used for authentication, single sign on, decryption in
+public/private schemes and digital signatures. A smartcard reader on the client
+cannot be used on a guest with simple usb passthrough since it will then not be
+available on the client, possibly locking the computer when it is "removed". On
+the other hand this device can let you use the smartcard on both the client and
+the guest machine. It is also possible to have a completely virtual smart card
+reader and smart card (i.e. not backed by a physical device) using this device.
+
+2. Building
+
+The cryptographic functions and access to the physical card is done via NSS.
+
+Installing NSS:
+
+In redhat/fedora:
+ yum install nss-devel
+In ubuntu/debian:
+ apt-get install libnss3-dev
+ (not tested on ubuntu)
+
+Configuring and building:
+ ./configure --enable-smartcard && make
+
+
+3. Using ccid-card-emulated with hardware
+
+Assuming you have a working smartcard on the host with the current
+user, using NSS, qemu acts as another NSS client using ccid-card-emulated:
+
+ qemu -usb -device usb-ccid -device ccid-card-emulated
+
+
+4. Using ccid-card-emulated with certificates stored in files
+
+You must create the CA and card certificates. This is a one time process.
+We use NSS certificates:
+
+ mkdir fake-smartcard
+ cd fake-smartcard
+ certutil -N -d sql:$PWD
+ certutil -S -d sql:$PWD -s "CN=Fake Smart Card CA" -x -t TC,TC,TC -n fake-smartcard-ca
+ certutil -S -d sql:$PWD -t ,, -s "CN=John Doe" -n id-cert -c fake-smartcard-ca
+ certutil -S -d sql:$PWD -t ,, -s "CN=John Doe (signing)" --nsCertType smime -n signing-cert -c fake-smartcard-ca
+ certutil -S -d sql:$PWD -t ,, -s "CN=John Doe (encryption)" --nsCertType sslClient -n encryption-cert -c fake-smartcard-ca
+
+Note: you must have exactly three certificates.
+
+You can use the emulated card type with the certificates backend:
+
+ qemu -usb -device usb-ccid -device ccid-card-emulated,backend=certificates,db=sql:$PWD,cert1=id-cert,cert2=signing-cert,cert3=encryption-cert
+
+To use the certificates in the guest, export the CA certificate:
+
+ certutil -L -r -d sql:$PWD -o fake-smartcard-ca.cer -n fake-smartcard-ca
+
+and import it in the guest:
+
+ certutil -A -d /etc/pki/nssdb -i fake-smartcard-ca.cer -t TC,TC,TC -n fake-smartcard-ca
+
+In a Linux guest you can then use the CoolKey PKCS #11 module to access
+the card:
+
+ certutil -d /etc/pki/nssdb -L -h all
+
+It will prompt you for the PIN (which is the password you assigned to the
+certificate database early on), and then show you all three certificates
+together with the manually imported CA cert:
+
+ Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes
+ fake-smartcard-ca CT,C,C
+ John Doe:CAC ID Certificate u,u,u
+ John Doe:CAC Email Signature Certificate u,u,u
+ John Doe:CAC Email Encryption Certificate u,u,u
+
+If this does not happen, CoolKey is not installed or not registered with
+NSS. Registration can be done from Firefox or the command line:
+
+ modutil -dbdir /etc/pki/nssdb -add "CAC Module" -libfile /usr/lib64/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so
+ modutil -dbdir /etc/pki/nssdb -list
+
+
+5. Using ccid-card-passthru with client side hardware
+
+on the host specify the ccid-card-passthru device with a suitable chardev:
+
+ qemu -chardev socket,server,host=0.0.0.0,port=2001,id=ccid,nowait -usb -device usb-ccid -device ccid-card-passthru,chardev=ccid
+
+on the client run vscclient, built when you built QEMU:
+
+ vscclient <qemu-host> 2001
+
+
+6. Using ccid-card-passthru with client side certificates
+
+This case is not particularly useful, but you can use it to debug
+your setup if #4 works but #5 does not.
+
+Follow instructions as per #4, except run QEMU and vscclient as follows:
+Run qemu as per #5, and run vscclient from the "fake-smartcard"
+directory as follows:
+
+ qemu -chardev socket,server,host=0.0.0.0,port=2001,id=ccid,nowait -usb -device usb-ccid -device ccid-card-passthru,chardev=ccid
+ vscclient -e "db=\"sql:$PWD\" use_hw=no soft=(,Test,CAC,,id-cert,signing-cert,encryption-cert)" <qemu-host> 2001
+
+
+7. Passthrough protocol scenario
+
+This is a typical interchange of messages when using the passthru card device.
+usb-ccid is a usb device. It defaults to an unattached usb device on startup.
+usb-ccid expects a chardev and expects the protocol defined in
+cac_card/vscard_common.h to be passed over that.
+The usb-ccid device can be in one of three modes:
+ * detached
+ * attached with no card
+ * attached with card
+
+A typical interchange is: (the arrow shows who started each exchange, it can be client
+originated or guest originated)
+
+client event | vscclient | passthru | usb-ccid | guest event
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ | VSC_Init | | |
+ | VSC_ReaderAdd | | attach |
+ | | | | sees new usb device.
+card inserted -> | | | |
+ | VSC_ATR | insert | insert | see new card
+ | | | |
+ | VSC_APDU | VSC_APDU | | <- guest sends APDU
+client<->physical | | | |
+card APDU exchange| | | |
+client response ->| VSC_APDU | VSC_APDU | | receive APDU response
+ ...
+ [APDU<->APDU repeats several times]
+ ...
+card removed -> | | | |
+ | VSC_CardRemove | remove | remove | card removed
+ ...
+ [(card insert, apdu's, card remove) repeat]
+ ...
+kill/quit | | | |
+ vscclient | | | |
+ | VSC_ReaderRemove | | detach |
+ | | | | usb device removed.
+
+
+8. libcacard
+
+Both ccid-card-emulated and vscclient use libcacard as the card emulator.
+libcacard implements a completely virtual CAC (DoD standard for smart
+cards) compliant card and uses NSS to retrieve certificates and do
+any encryption. The backend can then be a real reader and card, or
+certificates stored in files.
+
+For documentation of the library see docs/libcacard.txt.
+
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