Documentation shelf

Read the behavior, boundary, and evidence.

Printable PDFs for owners and reviewers, plus live Markdown for threat models and protocols. The repository remains authoritative.

Owner manuals (PDF)

Raw Markdown and the complete tree live on GitHub.

User Manual

Starting, register/sign-in, local Resident/Site-side/OTP/SSH browsing, trusted prompts, recovery, and erase.

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Companion Manual

Native companion: Passkeys, SSH, Files, Activity, RTC, Device settings, firmware/recovery, and erase.

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OpenPGP Manual

What OpenPGP is on csiPass, the companion's pages and the glass with screenshots, setting GnuPG up, a card from empty to working on the command line, SSH, Git signing, and everyday use.

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PIV Manual

The four PIV slots and their PIN rules, setup and the administration key backup, the companion's pages and the glass with screenshots, the command-line tools, OpenSC administration, Windows logon, and key history.

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Security

Threat model, trust boundaries, and what the companion must never see.

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Conformance

CTAP, OpenPGP Card and PIV coverage clause by clause (U2F is lab-only), and how each item was checked.

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Threat models & protocols

Best read from tracked source; they move faster than printable PDFs.

Security baseline

Overall threat model and security posture.

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FIDO threat model

CTAPHID, CTAP 2.1, and lab U2F surfaces.

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PIN and user verification

UV gate and authenticator PIN policy.

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Credential lifecycle

Credential kinds, hmac-secret, attestation.

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Management protocol

USB management wire, paging, Files, firmware, RTC, Activity.

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Management threat model

Authority, sessions, and management-surface threats.

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Authority and sessions

Token, session, evaluation order, teardown.

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Exposure ledger

What each management command class exposes and changes.

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Architecture

Runtime layers, trust boundaries, storage bands.

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OpenPGP / PIV design

Joint CCID plan, contracts, commissioning, lifecycle journal, and the evidence register.

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