{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"info"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"This article includes updates for Identity","type":"text"},{"text":" ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"textColor","attrs":{"color":"#ffc400"}}]},{"text":"Manager 5.0.1.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Attestation keys are keypairs. The private keys are used by ","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineCard","attrs":{"url":"https://nexusdoc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/65346881"}},{"text":" and ","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineCard","attrs":{"url":"https://nexusdoc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/65347558"}},{"text":" to sign Certification Signing Requests (CSR) while the public keys are used by ","type":"text"},{"type":"inlineCard","attrs":{"url":"https://nexusdoc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/65346241"}},{"text":" to verify the requests.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"As the default, built-in attestation keys can be found in any Smart ID Mobile App and Smart ID Desktop App installation, any device can install the app and try to request certificates. Configuring custom keypairs limits the devices that can request certificates to devices whose mobile or desktop app has the custom private key installed. The corresponding public keys can be configured into Identity Manager. This process consists of two steps:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Generate the PKCS#12 keystores. ","type":"text"},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"To make the public keys available to Identity Manager, keystores that contain a certificate with the public key must be created. Nexus provide a tool that, given the modulus and public exponent of the public key in ","type":"text"},{"text":"Base64 ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"format (or an ","type":"text"},{"text":"RSA JWK","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" public key), creates the keystore.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Configure the sign and encrypt engine.","type":"text"},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"The sign and encrypt engine must have access to the keystores.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Prerequisites","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Before you proceed with the configuration in Identity Manager, make sure that:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"bulletList","content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You have a mobile and/or desktop app with custom keys.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You have the public key material of these custom keys. That is, a string that looks similar to this, containing the public key in single-line JWK-based format (","type":"text"},{"text":"{\"alg\":\"RS256\", ...etc... ,\"use\":\"sig\"}","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"):","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"json"},"content":[{"text":"PublicKey: {\"alg\":\"RS256\",\"e\":\"AQAB\",\"keystate\":\"active\",\"kid\":\"attestation_2023-11-02T08:29:08GMT\",\"kty\":\"RSA\",\"n\":\"trfHQvFlcFcOEaB9v9tF6R1NggU3o9ddhmDb3GnGuEA3bP8XaKOgIrvh-KFvinE0xATcZk_XQC9n5ORhm-c5KvfryAdCGM62SKoBonc7Av7Iu6YHdcJHjoSCvjNSsw6B3mPoWP6IRvzwZRKgLHIDeNCjA7r0oKCXQIr05IxMVjOSHD8FIxKsgDq8CaF6j-0UFYS92pV5Ok-20nXqLsGv_IHojqazIE3xnNi1kEmNJF4q2LmVFu6VFkegjCj_O78wIGTI9JUZJK1LNMU1BqSDUKek8iTGPgojurNLe31l4Uvpe4j1Gi52mVzEiCufKhJP4xJzK7EGeT9rtcuUf4tB5SmCT_t9WYz6MvJ7cwFJ9sF7bb8vwYU22qgKuyvGtQGIojoYXOyWzCj3E3ZJM_PQxOyJwRF8oCGYD1UjHGdDqzFVQa3NHKwTlz4vdnfRzAdcbG3tn0tB5OCA8vMrGZvP30QJx0MmBrxduLm4bN59FSPV1WLmFkYOVVdf0RIG-bNq65rrlMOOQcV5jasgBEy6alb5uh21ewWx0Ld2DOMosWCEDa6G02QRLZfWIAqMvRvZtfyrv5FRIVoAPUQTnFMH7AGNAQ0rEywYPRa0XE7viTspeLULRrltjzh5rg9YXVhNspyca4SqooZniVEDz2cqOSn7r37VXD_qz2DBKPtSXo8\",\"n#len\":\"4096\",\"storage\":\"APP\",\"use\":\"sig\"}","type":"text"}]},{"type":"bulletList","content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You have the Nexus keystore creator tool.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"You have a JRE installed.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Step-by-step instructions","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Generate PKCS#12 keystores","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Keep the public key material at hand. ","type":"text"},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"This example will use the following:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","content":[{"text":"PublicKey: {\"alg\":\"RS256\",\"e\":\"AQAB\",\"keystate\":\"active\",\"kid\":\"attestation_2023-11-02T08:29:08GMT\",\"kty\":\"RSA\",\"n\":\"trfHQvFlcFcOEaB9v9tF6R1NggU3o9ddhmDb3GnGuEA3bP8XaKOgIrvh-KFvinE0xATcZk_XQC9n5ORhm-c5KvfryAdCGM62SKoBonc7Av7Iu6YHdcJHjoSCvjNSsw6B3mPoWP6IRvzwZRKgLHIDeNCjA7r0oKCXQIr05IxMVjOSHD8FIxKsgDq8CaF6j-0UFYS92pV5Ok-20nXqLsGv_IHojqazIE3xnNi1kEmNJF4q2LmVFu6VFkegjCj_O78wIGTI9JUZJK1LNMU1BqSDUKek8iTGPgojurNLe31l4Uvpe4j1Gi52mVzEiCufKhJP4xJzK7EGeT9rtcuUf4tB5SmCT_t9WYz6MvJ7cwFJ9sF7bb8vwYU22qgKuyvGtQGIojoYXOyWzCj3E3ZJM_PQxOyJwRF8oCGYD1UjHGdDqzFVQa3NHKwTlz4vdnfRzAdcbG3tn0tB5OCA8vMrGZvP30QJx0MmBrxduLm4bN59FSPV1WLmFkYOVVdf0RIG-bNq65rrlMOOQcV5jasgBEy6alb5uh21ewWx0Ld2DOMosWCEDa6G02QRLZfWIAqMvRvZtfyrv5FRIVoAPUQTnFMH7AGNAQ0rEywYPRa0XE7viTspeLULRrltjzh5rg9YXVhNspyca4SqooZniVEDz2cqOSn7r37VXD_qz2DBKPtSXo8\",\"n#len\":\"4096\",\"storage\":\"APP\",\"use\":\"sig\"}","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If you are on a Windows machine and the environment variable ","type":"text"},{"text":"JAVA_HOME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"is not set, edit ","type":"text"},{"text":"createP12.bat ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"and","type":"text"},{"text":" createP12fromJWK.bat ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"and set ","type":"text"},{"text":"JAVA_HOME ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"to point to your Java installation.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Start the keystore creator tool.","type":"text"},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"You can either start it in a mode that expects a complete public key in JWK format","type":"text"},{"text":" ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"(createP12fromJWK.bat / createP12fromJWK.sh), or in a mode that expects","type":"text"},{"text":" ","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":"individual key components (createP12.bat / createP12.sh):","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Start the keystore creator by executing ","type":"text"},{"text":"createP12fromJWK.bat","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" (on Windows) or ","type":"text"},{"text":"createP12fromJWK.sh","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" (on Linux). 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If the file failed to be created, see the note below.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"note"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If the file could not be created, for example, due to missing write permissions, the tool will print its contents on the screen as a long Base64 string. You can copy and paste this string in a file, Base64-decode it and store it. This will create the same file that could not be created in the first step. Alternatively, fix the problem and rerun the tool.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Configure the sign and encrypt engine","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The keystore must be available to both Identity Manager Admin, for configuring processes with the created attestation keys, and Identity Manager Operator. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Do the following:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"orderedList","attrs":{"order":1},"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Copy the created keystore to a location where Identity Manager can access it.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Edit the sign and encrypt engine's configuration and create a new key entry referencing the keystore.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Create a new descriptor entry referencing this key entry. The name of the descriptor must be exactly the same as it is named in the Smart ID mobile app and Smart ID Desktop App, prepended with the string \"att_\". ","type":"text"},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"The key name is denoted \"kid\" in the key material. In the example above, it is \"attestation_2023-11-02T08:29:08GMT”, so the descriptor name would be “att_attestation_2023-11-02T08:29:08GMT“.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To use new keys for an existing descriptor, create a new descriptor or key entry with an incremented version. Signatures will be validated against all versions of the key, until a valid one is found. This is useful in case some clients still have the old keys.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"panel","attrs":{"panelType":"info"},"content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"During bootstrap, if you have custom keys, remove the default attestation keys from the engine's configuration. ","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Only clients with the custom attestation keys can generate keypairs. If you keep the default keys and add new keys under a newer version of the same descriptor, requests signed with the default keys will still be accepted.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":1},"content":[{"text":"Sample descriptor configuration","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Example: attestation key","type":"text"}]},{"type":"codeBlock","attrs":{"language":"xml"},"content":[{"text":"\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n","type":"text"}]}],"version":1}

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