This code reads Grid chain of trust directly to uniquely itentify a user based upon the certificxates subject. The flexability of this system allows easy cross institutional trust relationships.

An example Chain for trust is available as an example.

This assuming file a defining signing_policy of allowed DN's is followed, all certificate subjects may resolve to a unique chain of trust. smimeX509validation uses this to build its certifcate chain Using this meachinism and agreed cerificate policies, 2 parties can have assurance of each others cross institute identity without exchanging more than public keys, which SMIME nicely embeds within messages.

Insert the x.509 certificates *.pem files. Vreate *.crl_url, *.signing_policy and your complete./

*.signing_policy and *.namespaces files is used by smimeX509validation to derive the certificate chain of trust from these namespaces. namespaces files have been superseeded by signing_policy files smimeX509validation reads both types independently.

It is recomended that this software is used in conjunction with fetch-crl. fetch-crl uses a crl url to download the crl for each CA.

fetch-crl gnereates *.r0 files, these are the crl for each certificate Authority referanced by a *.crl_url.

smimeX509validation parses these *.r0 certficate revocation lists for expired certificates.

Trust store "signing_policy" files should oook like this:

access_id_CA   X509   '/C=NL/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA SSL CA'
pos_rights     globus CA:sign
cond_subjects  globus '"/C=NL/O=Stichting FOM/OU=Nikhef/*"'

Where "cond_subjects" strign value represents a filter of Subjects that are alowed access.

The aim of this code is to authenticate SMIME signed messages, loading CRL's and CA details following the Trust Anchor Distribution trust anchor system.

Trust store "crl_url" files should oook like this:

http://crl.tcs.terena.org/TERENASSLCA.crl

pointing to crl update uri corresponding to the pem file share much of thier name

Example use of the fetch-crl command

/usr/sbin/fetch-crl --infodir doc/examples/truststore/

For fetch-crl to work a name matchign file must exist with the crl's latest version url as the only content.

#Contributors.

Below is a list of contributors. If you help in this project please add your name.

Owen Synge : owen.synge@desy.de

Comments and feedback:

David Groep : davidg@nikhef.nl

This library is intended to work with trust anchors and certificate revocation lists (CRL) and signing policies. The library does not retrive CRL's it is recomended that other tools such as fetch-crl (https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/util/) to update your CRL's.

How to verify.

To get the DN and CA of your signature.

openssl smime -in your_signed.msg \
 -pk7out | openssl pkcs7 -print_certs

To Verify the message against the CA certificate.

openssl smime -in your_signed.msg \
 -CAfile /etc/grid-security/certificates/dd4b34ea.0 \
 -verify 1> /dev/null
 
or alternatively:

    openssl smime -in  EGI.list \
        -CApath /etc/grid-security/certificates/ \
        -verify 1 > /dev/null



Whats developed.

loadcanamespace.py is a simeple library developed to automate and simplify the authentication of signed messages.

Thier is a small demo application for checking one or more signed messages.

Usage: message_signed_validation.py [options]

Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -m MESSAGE, --message=MESSAGE adds a message to be tested. -c CERTS_DIR, --certs-dir=CERTS_DIR Path of certificates dir

Dependancies

apt-get install python-m2crypto
apt-get install python-setuptools