Storing your grid certificate on an Aladdin eToken

How to store your existing grid certificate on an Aladdin eToken

To store your existing grid certificate (usercert.pem and userkey.pem files) use the following commands

• Convert your public certificate to DER format

 openssl x509 -in ~/.globus/usercert.pem -out usercert.der -outform der

• Load your public certificate on the eToken (you must use your user PIN to do this):

 # pkcs11-tool --module /usr/local/lib/libetpkcs11.so \
               --label "My Grid Certificate" \
               --id 1234 \
               --login \
               -w usercert.der \
               --type cert
 Please enter User PIN:
 Generated certificate:
 Certificate Object, type = X.509 cert
   label:      Jan Just Keijser
   ID:         1234

• Load your private key on the eToken (you must use your user PIN to do this):

 # openssl rsa -in ~/.globus/userkey.pem -outform der | \
     pkcs11-tool --module /usr/local/lib/libetpkcs11.so \
                 --label "My Grid Certificate"  \
                 --id 1234 \ 
                 --login \
                 -w \
                 --type privkey
 Please enter User PIN:
 Generated private key:
 Private Key Object; RSA
 label:      Jan Just Keijser
 ID:         1234
 Usage:      decrypt, sign, unwrap

Note

It is important that this is done in a single step, as your private key is decrypted first and then encrypted again using your eToken user PIN when it is stored on the eToken.