6 CanoKey [1]_ is an open-source secure key with supports of
8 * U2F / FIDO2 with Ed25519 and HMAC-secret
9 * OpenPGP Card V3.4 with RSA4096, Ed25519 and more [2]_
10 * PIV (NIST SP 800-73-4)
14 All these platform-independent features are in canokey-core [3]_.
16 For different platforms, CanoKey has different implementations,
17 including both hardware implementions and virtual cards:
21 * (virt-card) CanoKey USB/IP
22 * (virt-card) CanoKey FunctionFS
24 In QEMU, yet another CanoKey virt-card is implemented.
25 CanoKey QEMU exposes itself as a USB device to the guest OS.
27 With the same software configuration as a hardware key,
28 the guest OS can use all the functionalities of a secure key as if
29 there was actually an hardware key plugged in.
31 CanoKey QEMU provides much convenience for debugging:
33 * libcanokey-qemu supports debugging output thus developers can
34 inspect what happens inside a secure key
35 * CanoKey QEMU supports trace event thus event
36 * QEMU USB stack supports pcap thus USB packet between the guest
37 and key can be captured and analysed
41 * For developers on software with secure key support (e.g. FIDO2, OpenPGP),
42 they can see what happens inside the secure key
43 * For secure key developers, USB packets between guest OS and CanoKey
44 can be easily captured and analysed
46 Also since this is a virtual card, it can be easily used in CI for testing
47 on code coping with secure key.
52 libcanokey-qemu is required to use CanoKey QEMU.
56 git clone https://github.com/canokeys/canokey-qemu
57 mkdir canokey-qemu/build
58 pushd canokey-qemu/build
60 If you want to install libcanokey-qemu in a different place,
61 add ``-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/your/place`` to cmake below.
67 make install # may need sudo
70 Then configuring and building:
74 # depending on your env, lib/pkgconfig can be lib64/pkgconfig
75 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/your/place/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
76 ./configure --enable-canokey && make
81 CanoKey QEMU stores all its data on a file of the host specified by the argument
86 |qemu_system| -usb -device canokey,file=$HOME/.canokey-file
88 Note: you should keep this file carefully as it may contain your private key!
90 The first time when the file is used, it is created and initialized by CanoKey,
91 afterwards CanoKey QEMU would just read this file.
93 After the guest OS boots, you can check that there is a USB device.
95 For example, If the guest OS is an Linux machine. You may invoke lsusb
96 and find CanoKey QEMU there:
101 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 20a0:42d4 Clay Logic CanoKey QEMU
103 You may setup the key as guided in [6]_. The console for the key is at [7]_.
108 CanoKey QEMU consists of two parts, ``libcanokey-qemu.so`` and ``canokey.c``,
109 the latter of which resides in QEMU. The former provides core functionality
110 of a secure key while the latter provides platform-dependent functions:
113 If you want to trace what happens inside the secure key, when compiling
114 libcanokey-qemu, you should add ``-DQEMU_DEBUG_OUTPUT=ON`` in cmake command
117 .. code-block:: shell
119 cmake .. -DQEMU_DEBUG_OUTPUT=ON
121 If you want to trace events happened in canokey.c, use
125 |qemu_system| --trace "canokey_*" \\
126 -usb -device canokey,file=$HOME/.canokey-file
128 If you want to capture USB packets between the guest and the host, you can:
132 |qemu_system| -usb -device canokey,file=$HOME/.canokey-file,pcap=key.pcap
137 Currently libcanokey-qemu.so has dozens of global variables as it was originally
138 designed for embedded systems. Thus one qemu instance can not have
139 multiple CanoKey QEMU running, namely you can not
143 |qemu_system| -usb -device canokey,file=$HOME/.canokey-file \\
144 -device canokey,file=$HOME/.canokey-file2
146 Also, there is no lock on canokey-file, thus two CanoKey QEMU instance
147 can not read one canokey-file at the same time.
152 .. [1] `<https://canokeys.org>`_
153 .. [2] `<https://docs.canokeys.org/userguide/openpgp/#supported-algorithm>`_
154 .. [3] `<https://github.com/canokeys/canokey-core>`_
155 .. [4] `<https://github.com/canokeys/canokey-stm32>`_
156 .. [5] `<https://github.com/canokeys/canokey-pigeon>`_
157 .. [6] `<https://docs.canokeys.org/>`_
158 .. [7] `<https://console.canokeys.org/>`_