# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 # Destroy any old key on the Yubikey (careful!) ykman piv reset # Generate a new private/public key pair on the device, store the public key in # 'pubkey.pem'. ykman piv generate-key -a RSA2048 9d pubkey.pem # Create a self-signed certificate from this public key, and store it on the # device. The "subject" should be an arbitrary user-chosen string to identify # the token with. ykman piv generate-certificate --subject "Knobelei" 9d pubkey.pem # We don't need the public key anymore, let's remove it. Since it is not # security sensitive we just do a regular "rm" here. rm pubkey.pem # Enroll the freshly initialized security token in the LUKS2 volume. Replace # /dev/sdXn by the partition to use (e.g. /dev/sda1). sudo systemd-cryptenroll --pkcs11-token-uri=auto /dev/sdXn # Test: Let's run systemd-cryptsetup to test if this all worked. sudo systemd-cryptsetup attach mytest /dev/sdXn - pkcs11-uri=auto # If that worked, let's now add the same line persistently to /etc/crypttab, # for the future. We don't want to use the (unstable) /dev/sdX name, so let's # figure out a stable link: udevadm info -q -r symlink /dev/sdXn # Now add the line using the by-uuid symlink to /etc/crypttab: sudo bash -c 'echo "mytest /dev/disk/by-uuid/... - pkcs11-uri=auto" >>/etc/crypttab' # Depending on your distribution and encryption setup, you may need to manually # regenerate your initramfs to be able to use a Yubikey / PKCS#11 token to # unlock the partition during early boot. # More information at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/705809. # On Fedora based systems: sudo dracut --force # On Debian based systems: sudo update-initramfs -u