Release Notes

ykpiv: Fix type casting issues affecting systems using Big-endian architecture

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for communication over a secure channel according to SCP11b specifications

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for device global reset

cmd: Fix performing bio verification

ykcs11: Fix handling ED25519 and X25519 keys

cmd: Add support for biometric verification and match policy

ykcs11: Add support for PKCS11 3.0

ykpiv: cmd: ykcs11: Improve error traceability

ykpiv: cmd: ykcs11: Fix minor bugs

build: Make building with zlib optional

cmd: Fix signing selfsigned certificate for ED25519 key.

ykpiv: cmd: ykcs11: Fix buffer size for key import.

ykpiv: cmd: ykcs11: Add support for RSA3072 and RSA4096 key types. Available in firmware 5.7.0 and newer

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for ED25519 and X25519 key types. Available in firmware 5.7.0 and newer

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for deleting keys. Available in firmware 5.7.0 and newer

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for moving keys between slots. Available in firmware 5.7.0 and newer

ykpiv: Fix potential type casting bug.

ykpiv: ykcs11: Fix building on certain architectures. Existing builds are not affected.

ykpiv: cmd: Add support for compressing certificate upon import

ykcs11: Increase maximum number of slots to handle overflow

ykcs11: Add support for CKA_COPYABLE and CKA_DESTROYABLE attributes

ykpiv: Add support for T=0 smartcards

ykpiv: ykcs11: Minor code optimization

ykpiv: ykcs11: Improve logging

ykpiv: ykcs11: Improve error handling

ykpiv: ykcs11: Fix minor bugs

ykcs11: Add support for several PKCS11 Attributes

ykcs11: Add support for CKM_ECDSA_SHA512 mechanism

ykcs11: Fix incorrect value for public key attributes CKA_PRIVATE, CKA_SENSITIVE, CKA_ALWAYS_SENSITIVE, CKA_EXTRACTABLE and CKA_NEVER_EXTRACTABLE

doc: Minor documentation improvement

ykpiv: Add support for AES management keys

ykpiv: Better handling of connection reset

ykpiv: Add support for T=0 protocol

ykcs11: Support YubiKeys in NFC readers

ykcs11: Support touch and PIN policies for imported private keys

ykcs11: Support touch and PIN policy when generating keys

ykcs11: Set length to -1 on function fail

ykcs11: Ignore CKA_NAME_HASH_ALGORITHM and CKA_HASH_OF_SUBJECT_PUBLIC_KEY for certificates

cmd: Support attestation in selfsign certificates

build: Compile cleanly with openssl 1.1 and 3

ykpiv: Minor bug fixes

ykcs11: Improved handling of object attributes

ykcs11: Update flags for EC related mechanisms

ykcs11: Minor bug fixes

test: Improved testing

doc: Improved documentation

ykpiv: Increased SO version

ykpiv: Fixed minor memory leaks

ykpiv: Improved error handling

ykpiv: Improved handling of PCSC card validation

ykcs11: Updated Cryptoki version

ykcs11: Support for CKM_ECDH1_DERIVE mechanism info

ykcs11: Support for destroying ECDH derived keys

ykcs11: Improved handling of PIN after device re-connection

ykcs11: Improved debug logging

cmd: Improved parsing of certificate Distinguished Name to allow an escape character

cmd: Warning to discourage generating RSA1024 keys

build: Use of platform standard installation path when building yubico-piv-tool

tests: Improved testing

Fixed missing dependency when building debian package

Replaced building with autotool with building with cmake

Security update for YSA-2020-02

ykpiv: Fixed potential memory leaks

ykpiv: Use PIN-protected MGMT key if the device is configured that way

ykpiv: Added attestation to CSR if requested

ykpiv: Fixed compatibility with LibreSSL

ykcs11: Improved handling of error codes

ykcs11: Improved handling of examples in the PKCS11 specifications

ykcs11: Added the possibility to have debug output as a runtime setting

ykcs11: Added support to unblock PIN with PUK

ykcs11: Make C_SetPIN backwards compatible while also allowing unblock PIN

tests: Improved tests

ykpiv: Added ykpiv_get_metadata and ykpiv_util_parse_metadata to read and parse private key metadata (supported from YK 5.3).

ykpiv: Fixed PCSC transaction handling when re-selecting PIV due to external card reset events.

ykpiv: Improved error reporting.

ykpiv: Correctly report YK5 devices, and NEO and YK5 over NFC.

ykpiv: MGM KEY (SO PIN) is cached (in addition to PIN).

ykpiv: Fixed resetting of cached serial / version when an application re-uses ykpiv_state.

ykpiv: ykpiv_get_pin_retries selects a different applet before re-selecting PIV since just re-selecting PIV is a no-op on YK5.

ykcs11: Shared library exports all PKCS11 functions per the spec (For applications that don’t use C_GetFunctionList).

ykcs11: Support for up to 16 simultaneous sessions, with support for multi-threaded access (if requested when calling C_Initialize).

ykcs11: Support for resetting the PIV application via C_initToken. Requires knowledge of the MGMT KEY (SO PIN) per the PKCS11 spec.

ykcs11: Support for public-key operations not supported by PIV (C_Verify, C_Encrypt), implemented using OpenSSL.

ykcs11: Support for attestations, exposed as session objects of certificate class. Generated when opening the first session to a slot.

ykcs11: Support for forked processes on Linux and MacOS.

ykcs11: Support for RSA signatures using PKCS or PSS padding with optional digesting by the library. Raw signatures are also supported.

ykcs11: Support for ECDSA signatures with optional digesting by the library. Raw signatures are also supported.

ykcs11: Support for RSA encryption / decryption with PKCS or OAEP padding.

ykcs11: Makes use of key metadata when available (YK 5.3 and above), providing access to keys even if certificates are not present.

ykcs11: Supports SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 digesting, plus SHA224 digesting for ECDSA signatures and for the MGF1 digest in PSS / OAEP, implemented using OpenSSL.

ykcs11: Supports C_Login with context-specific user type. This allows use cases that require both SO PIN and normal PIN in the same session.

Add ykpiv_get_serial() to API.

Add version and serial to status output.

FASC-N fixes for CHUID.

ykcs11: Fix ECDSA signatures.

Make selfsigned X.509 extensions have correct extensions to match openssl.

Security fixes.

Documentation fixes.

Try to clear memory that might contain secrets.

Compare reader names case insensitive.

Fix certificate and certificate request signatures with OpenSSL 1.1.

Compilation warning fixes for OpenSSL 1.1 builds.

Fix length when encoding exactly 0xff bytes.

Check length of objects correctly before storing in buffer.

Check length of certificate correctly when storing.

Security release to mitigate YSA-2018-03.

Allow builiding against LibreSSL.

Bugfixes in OpenSSL 1.1 code.

Fix compilation warnings.

Fix ykcs11 key generation to work with OpenSSL 1.1.

Ykcs11 compatibility fixes.

API additions: Higher-level "util" API added to libykpiv.

Added ykpiv_attest(), ykpiv_get_pin_retries(), ykpiv_set_pin_retries()

Added functions for using existing PCSC card handle.

Support using custom memory allocator.

Documentation updates. make doxygen for HTML format.

Expanded automated tests for hardware devices, moved to make hwcheck.

OpenSSL 1.1 support

Moderate internal refactoring. Many small bugs fixed.

Documentation updates.

Add pin caching to work around disconnect problems.

Disable RSA key generation on YubiKey 4 before 4.3.5. See https://yubi.co/ysa201701/ for details.

Encode RSA x509 certificates correctly.

Documentation updates.

In ykcs11 return CKA_MODULUS correctly for private keys.

In ykcs11 fix for signature size approximation.

Fix PSS signatures in ykcs11.

Add a CLI flag --stdin-input to make batch execution easier.

Clarify license headers and clean up YKCS11 licensing. Now uses pkcs11.h from the Scute project.

Don’t install ykcs11-version.h.

No cflags in ykcs11.pc.

Unimplemented YKCS11 functions now return CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED.

Documentation updates

Add possibility to export certificates in SSH format.

Make certificate serial number random by default.

Add attest action When used on a slot with a generated key, outputs a signed x509 certificate for that slot showing that the key was generated in hardware. Available in firmware 4.3.0 and newer.

Add cached parameter for touch-policy With cached, the touch is valid for an additional 15s. Available in firmware 4.3.0 and newer.

Enforce a minimum PIN length of 6 characters.

Fix a bug with list-readers action where it fell through processing into write-object.

Fix a bug where unblock pin would instead change puk, introduced in 1.3.0.

Clarifications with help texts.

Fixed extraction of RSA modulus and exponent for pkcs11.

Implemented C_SetPIN for pkcs11.

Add generic write and read object actions for the tool. Supports hex/binary/base64 formats

Add ykpiv_change_pin(), ykpiv_change_puk() and ykpiv_unblock_pin()

Print CCC with status action.

Address bugs with pkcs11 on windows.

Add --valid-days and --serial to tool for selfsign-certificate action.

Ask for password for pkcs12 if none is given.

Fix old buffer overflow in change-pin functionality.

Fix issue with big certificates and status.

On OSX use @loader_path instead of @executable_path for ykcs11.

Add ykpiv_import_private_key to libykpiv.

Raise buffer sizes to support bigger objects.

Change behavior of action status, only list populated slots.

Add retired keys to ykcs11.

In ykcs11 support login with non null terminated pin.

Add a new action set-ccc to yubico-piv-tool to set the CCC.

Properly handle DER encoding in ECDSA signatures.

Make sure SCardContext is properly acquired and released.

Add support for new YubiKey 4.

Add ykcs11.

Correct wording on unblock-pin action.

Show pin retries correctly.

Use a bigger buffer for receiving data.

Query for different passwords/pins on stdin if they’re not supplied.

If a reader fails continue trying matching readers.

Authentication failed is supposed to be 0x63cX not 0x630X.

Project relicensed to 2-clause BSD license

Minor fixes found with clang scan-build

Add a test-decipher action.

Check that e is 0x10001 on importing rsa keys

Use PCSC transactions when sending and receiving data

Add a read-certificate action to the tool.

Add a status action to the tool.

Fix a library bug so NULL can be passed to ykpiv_verify()

Add a test-signature action to the tool.

Revert the check for parity and just set parity before the weak check.

Prompt for input if input is stdin.

Mark all bits of the signature as used is certs and requests.

Correct error for unblock-pin.

Fix hex decode to decode capital letters and return error.

Check parity of new management keys.

Add format DER for importing certificates.

Make sure diagnostic feedback ends up on stderr.

Add positive feedback for a couple of actions.

Fix an issue where shorter component of RSA keys where not packed correctly.

Correct broken CHUID that made windows work inconsistently.

Add support for compressed certificates.

Fix broken unblock-pin action.

Don’t try to accept to short keys for mgm key.

Only do applet authentication if needed.

Add --hash for selecting what hash to use for signatures.

Add hidden --sign command. Should probably not be used.

Fix for signature algorithm in selfsigned cert.

Break out functionality into a library.

More testing.

Add delete-certificate action.

Fix minor bugs.

Fix an offset bug with CHUID.

Do full mutual auth with the applet.

Initial release.