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Appendix

SGX Attestation flow

To Deploy SampleApp:
  Copy sample_apps.tar, sample_apps.sha2 and sampleapps_untar.sh from binaries directory to a directory in SGX compute node and untar it using './sample_apps_untar.sh'
  Install Intel® SGX SDK for Linux*OS into /opt/intel/sgxsdk using './install_sgxsdk.sh'
  Install SGX dependencies using './deploy_sgx_dependencies.sh'
Note: Make sure to deploy SQVS with includetoken configuration as false. 

To Verify the SampleApp flow:
  Update sample_apps.conf with the following
   - IP address for SQVS services deployed on Enterprise system
   - IP address for SCS services deployed on CSP system
   - ENTERPRISE_CMS_IP should point to the IP of CMS service deployed on Enterprise system
   - Network Port numbers for SCS services deployed on CSP system
   - Network Port numbers for SQVS and CMS services deployed on Enterprise system
   - Set RUN_ATTESTING_APP to yes if user wants to run both apps in same machine
  Run SampleApp using './run_sample_apps.sh'
  Check the output of attestedApp and attestingApp under out/attested_app_console_out.log and out/attesting_app_console_out.log files

Creating RSA Keys in Key Broker Service

Steps to run KMIP Server

Note

Below mentioned steps are provided as script (install_pykmip.sh and pykmip.service) as part of kbs_script folder which will install KMIP Server as daemon. Refer to ‘Install KMIP Server as daemon’ section.

1. Install python3 and vim-common
   # dnf -y install python3-pip vim-common
   ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python  > /dev/null 2>&1
   ln -s /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip  > /dev/null 2>&1

2. Install pykmip
   # pip3 install pykmip==0.9.1

3. In the /etc/ directory create pykmip and policies folders
   mkdir -p /etc/pykmip/policies

4. Configure pykmip server using server.conf
   Update hostname in the server.conf

5. Copy the following to /etc/pykmip/ from kbs_script folder available under binaries directory
   create_certificates.py, run_server.py, server.conf

6. Create certificates
   > cd /etc/pykmip
   > python3 create_certificates.py <KMIP Host IP/KMIP Host FQDN>

7. Kill running KMIP Server processes and wait for 10 seconds until all the KMIP Server processes are killed. 
   > ps -ef | grep run_server.py | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

8. Run pykmip server using run_server.py script
   > python3 run_server.py &

Install KMIP Server as daemon

1. cd into /root/binaries/kbs_script folder 

2. Configure pykmip server using server.conf
   Update hostname in the server.conf

3. Run the install_pykmip.sh script and KMIP server will be installed as daemon process
   ./install_pykmip.sh
Create RSA key in PyKMIP and generate certificate

Note

This step is required only when PyKMIP script is used as a backend KMIP server.

1. Update Host IP in /root/binaries/kbs_script rsa_create.py script
2. In the kbs_script folder, Run rsa_create.py script
    > cd /root/binaries/kbs_script
    > python3 rsa_create.py

This script will generate “Private Key ID” and “Server certificate”, which should be provided in the kbs.conf file for “KMIP_KEY_ID” and “SERVER_CERT”.
Configuration Update to create Keys in KBS

cd into /root/binaries/kbs_script folder

**To register keys with KBS KMIP**

Update the following variables in kbs.conf:

    KMIP_KEY_ID (Private key ID registered in KMIP server)

    SERVER_CERT (Server certificate for created private key)

    Enterprise system IP address where CMS, AAS and KBS services are deployed

    Port of CMS, AAS and KBS services deployed on enterprise system

    AAS admin and Enterprise admin credentials
Note

If KMIP_KEY_ID is not provided then RSA key register will be done with keystring.

Update sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof value in transfer_policy_request.json with enclave measurement value obtained using sgx_sign utility. Refer to "Extracting SGX Enclave values for Key Transfer Policy" section.

Create RSA Key

Execute the command

./run.sh reg

Copy the generated cert file to SGX Compute node where skc_library is deployed. Also make a note of the key id generated.

Configuration for NGINX testing

Note

Below mentioned OpenSSL and NGINX configuration updates are provided as patches (nginx.patch and openssl.patch) as part of skc_library deployment script. Patch can be applied with default nginx and openssl file. In case nginx/openssl contains any external changes then refer manual step.

Apply Patch Execute the command with nginx version - nginx 1.14.1 (Rhel) and openssl version- Openssl 1.1.1g (Rhel)

    patch -b /etc/nginx/nginx.conf < nginx.patch
    patch -b /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf < openssl.patch

OpenSSL

Update openssl configuration file /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf with below changes:

[openssl_def] engines = engine_section

[engine_section] pkcs11 = pkcs11_section

[pkcs11_section] engine_id = pkcs11

dynamic_path =/usr/lib64/engines-1.1/pkcs11.so

MODULE_PATH =/opt/skc/lib/libpkcs11-api.so

init = 0

Nginx

Update nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf with below changes:

ssl_engine pkcs11;

Update the location of certificate with the loaction where it was copied into the skc_library machine.

ssl_certificate "add absolute path of crt file";

Update the fields(token, object and pin-value) with the values given in keys.txt for the KeyID corresponding to the certificate.

ssl_certificate_key "engine:pkcs11:pkcs11:token=KMS;object=RSAKEY;pin-value=1234";

SKC Configuration

Create keys.txt in /root folder. This provides key preloading functionality in skc_library.

Any number of keys can be added in keys.txt. Each PKCS11 URL should contain different Key ID which need to be transferred from KBS along with respective object tag for each key id specified

Sample PKCS11 url is as below

pkcs11:token=KMS;id=164b41ae-be61-4c7c-a027-4a2ab1e5e4c4;object=RSAKEY;type=private;pin-value=1234;

Token, object and pin-value given in PKCS11 url entry in keys.txt should match with the one in nginx.conf.

The keyID should match the keyID of RSA key created in KBS. File location should match with preload_keys directive in pkcs11-apimodule.ini;

Sample /opt/skc/etc/pkcs11-apimodule.ini file

[core]
preload_keys=/root/keys.txt
keyagent_conf=/opt/skc/etc/key-agent.ini
mode=SGX
debug=true

[SGX]
module=/opt/intel/cryptoapitoolkit/lib/libp11sgx.so

KBS key-transfer flow validation

On SGX Compute node, Execute below commands for KBS key-transfer:

Note

Before initiating key transfer make sure, PYKMIP server is running.

    pkill nginx

Remove any existing pkcs11 token

    rm -rf /opt/intel/cryptoapitoolkit/tokens/*

Initiate Key transfer from KBS

    systemctl restart nginx

Changing group ownership and permissions of pkcs11 token

    chown -R root:intel /opt/intel/cryptoapitoolkit/tokens/

    chmod -R 770 /opt/intel/cryptoapitoolkit/tokens/

Establish a tls session with the nginx using the key transferred inside the enclave

    wget https://localhost:2443 --no-check-certificate

Note on Key Transfer Policy

Key transfer policy is used to enforce a set of policies which need to be compiled with before the secret can be securely provisioned onto a sgx enclave

A typical Key Transfer Policy would look as below 

        "sgx_enclave_issuer_anyof":["83d719e77deaca1470f6baf62a4d774303c899db69020f9c70ee1dfc08c7ce9e"],
        "sgx_enclave_issuer_product_id_anyof":[0],
        "sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof":["ad46749ed41ebaa2327252041ee746d3791a9f2431830fee0883f7993caf316a"],
        "tls_client_certificate_issuer_cn_anyof":["CMSCA", "CMS TLS Client CA"],
        "client_permissions_allof":["nginx","USA"],
        "sgx_enforce_tcb_up_to_date":false
sgx_enclave_issuer_anyof establishes the signing identity provided by an authority who has signed the sgx enclave. in other words the owner of the enclave

sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof represents the cryptographic hash of the enclave log (enclave code, data)

sgx_enforce_tcb_up_to_date - If set to true, Key Broker service will provision the key only of the platform generating the quote conforms to the latest Trusted Computing Base

client_permissions_allof - Special permission embedded into the skc_library client TLS certificate which can enforce additional restrictons on who can get access to the key, In above example: the key is provisioned only to the nginx workload and platform which is tagged with value for ex: USA

Note on SKC Library Deployment

SKC Library Deployment (Binary as well as container) needs to performed with root privilege

For binary deployment of SKC client Library, only one instance of Workload can use SKC Client Library. The config information for SKC client library is bound to the workload. In future, Multiple workloads might be supported For container deployment, since configmaps are used, each container instance of workload gets its own private SKC Client Library config information

The SKC Client Library TLS client certificate private key is stored in the configuration directories and can be read only with elevated root privileges keys.txt (set of PKCS11 URIs for the keys to be securely provisioned into an SGX enclave) can only be modified with elevated privileges

Extracting SGX Enclave values for Key Transfer Policy

Values that are specific to the enclave such as sgx_enclave_issuer_anyof, sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof and sgx_enclave_issuer_product_id_anyof can be retrived using sgx_sign utility that is available as part of Intel SGX SDK.

Run sgx_sign utility on the signed enclave (This command should be run on the build system). 

    /opt/intel/sgxsdk/bin/x64/sgx_sign dump -enclave <path to the signed enclave> -dumpfile info.txt

  • For sgx_enclave_issuer_anyof, in info.txt, search for "mrsigner->value" . E.g mrsigner->value : 
    mrsigner->value: "0x83 0xd7 0x19 0xe7 0x7d 0xea 0xca 0x14 0x70 0xf6 0xba 0xf6 0x2a 0x4d 0x77 0x43 0x03 0xc8 0x99 0xdb 0x69 0x02 0x0f 0x9c 0x70 0xee 0x1d 0xfc 0x08 0xc7 0xce 0x9e"
    Remove the whitespace and 0x characters from the above string and add it to the policy file. E.g : 
    "sgx_enclave_issuer_anyof":["83d719e77deaca1470f6baf62a4d774303c899db69020f9c70ee1dfc08c7ce9e"]
  • For sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof, in info.txt, search for metadata->enclave_css.body.enclave_hash.m . E.g metadata->enclave_css.body.enclave_hash.m : 
    metadata->enclave_css.body.enclave_hash.m:
0xad 0x46 0x74 0x9e 0xd4 0x1e 0xba 0xa2 0x32 0x72 0x52 0x04 0x1e 0xe7 0x46 0xd3
0x79 0x1a 0x9f 0x24 0x31 0x83 0x0f 0xee 0x08 0x83 0xf7 0x99 0x3c 0xaf 0x31 0x6a
    Remove the whitespace and 0x characters from the above string and add it to the policy file. E.g : 
    "sgx_enclave_measurement_anyof":["ad46749ed41ebaa2327252041ee746d3791a9f2431830fee0883f7993caf316a"]
    Please note that the SGX Enclave measurement value will depend on the toolchain used to build and link the SGX enclave. Hence the SGX Enclave measurement value would differ across OS flavours. For more details please refer https://github.com/intel/linux-sgx/tree/master/linux/reproducibility
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