SoftHSM

SoftHSM2 works very well with EJBCA, and after initializing a slot you can use it by creating a new Crypto Token in the Admin GUI.

The user PIN is what you will use to activate the token in EJBCA.

Debian

BASH

sudo apt-get install softhsm2

To be able to create tokens as a normal user, make /var/lib/softhsm/tokens readable and writable by adding yourself to the ods group. Make sure that the user running the application server belongs to this group as well.
Note: The group might be called softhsm instead of ods. You can check with ls -ld /etc/softhsm . If so, please adjust the commands.

BASH

sudo usermod -aG ods "$USER"
sudo usermod -aG ods wildfly

After setting privileges, you can use softhsm as normal user.

BASH

softhsm2-util --init-token --free --label slot1

Now you can initialize additional slots. Note that if you provide the --slot parameter to SoftHSM2 it will most likely not become the slot number you specify.

To list the slots, use the following command:

CODE

softhsm2-util --show-slots

To list all keys (usable by EJBCA) on a slot you can use a clientToolBox command:

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./ejbcaClientToolBox.sh PKCS11HSMKeyTool test /usr/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm2.so TOKEN_LABEL:slot1

To list all PKCS#11 objects on a slot you can use a command like pkcs11-tool:

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pkcs11-tool --module /usr/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm2.so --token-label slot1 --pin foo123 -O