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Finnish Electronic Identity

Finnish identity cards have been electronic for ages and as I tend to forget how to use it on Linux again, here are my notes.

• Official application: https://dvv.fi/en/card-reader-software
  • Fedora/rpm is hidden under “All versions”, “Linux versions”
• DVV certificate newsletter: https://uutiskirjeet.dvv.fi/uutiset/varmennepalvelut.html

Requirements for everything

PCSDd must be running, it’s found in package pcscd on Debian and likely pcsc-lite on Fedora.

sudo systemctl enable pcscd --now

Chromium

Should work as long as the DigiSignApplication from above was running before the browser was started.

Firefox and Thunderbird

In Settings, Advanced, Security devices load the module from (DVV app) /usr/lib64/libcryptoki.so or (OpenSC):

• Debian: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/onepin-opensc-pkcs11.so
  • Package: opensc-pkcs11
• Fedora: /usr/lib64/onepin-opensc-pkcs11.so
  • Package: opensc

onepin is a workaround to not ask for PIN2 which is only used for legal agreements, email signing also uses PIN1.

Root certificates

While I don’t think the user necessarily needs them, my notes mention DVV Gov. Root CA.

• https://dvv.fi/en/ca-certificates

Testing

• https://dvv.fineid.fi/en/authentication

FINEID as SSH key

0. I would start by ssh-add -D to remove other keys from the ssh-agent.
1. Add the key to the agent

• Debian: ssh-add -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opensc-pkcs11.so
• Fedora: ssh-add -s /usr/lib64/opensc-pkcs11.so

2. Export the public key(s) by ssh-add -L
3. Naturally put them into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, but SSH should detect them automatically. The file could also be mentioned in ssh_config

Via: https://www.linux.fi/wiki/HST#Ssh_2