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+# Getting Started on the Novena
+
+## The Novena Board
+
+[[Image(http://bunniefoo.com/novena/pvt1_release/novena_pvt1e_top_sm.jpg)]]
+
+[Novena](http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page) is an open hardware and F/OSS-friendly computing platform. It is a small single-board Linux PC, with a Freescale i.MX6 (ARM
+Cortex-A9) CPU and a Xilinx Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA.
+
+It is available in limited quantities through [crowd supply](https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena).
+
+### Setting up the Novena
+
+The Novena PVT-2 requires some initial setup. You will need to attach a USB keyboard and HDMI monitor.
+
+Once this is done, most of us prefer to run it headless, and ssh in.
+
+You may also want to bring the packages up to date:
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get update
+$ sudo apt-get upgrade
+```
+
+## The Avalanche Noise Board
+
+[[Image(rev03-on-novena.jpg, 40%)]]
+
+The avalanche noise board is a Novena daughter board that contains a zener-diode noise circuit that can be read directly by the FPGA.
+
+*(More information from FT: block diagram, schematics, ...)*
+
+It is available in limited quantities directly from Fredrik Thulin, and will be distributed at the PrahaWorkshop.
+
+## Binary Packages
+
+Cryptech maintains an ```apt``` repository, with two binary packages for the Novena:
+
+* a bitstream, to be configured into the FPGA
+* software, to run on the CPU
+
+
+### How to get them
+
+All commands are run on the Novena.
+
+1. First, get the hactrn CA certificate:
+
+```
+$ wget http://www.hactrn.net/cacert.asc
+```
+
+Get the key used to sign the CA certificate.
+
+```
+$ gpg --recv-keys 2DC6FF82
+```
+
+Validate the CA certificate
+
+```
+$ gpg cacert.asc
+```
+
+Install the CA certficiate.
+
+```
+$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/ca-certificates/hactrn.org
+$ sudo mv cacert /usr/share/ca-certificates/hactrn.org/cacert.crt
+$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates
+```
+
+2. Get the repository key.
+
+```
+$ wget https://apt.cryptech.is/novena/apt-gpg-key.asc
+```
+
+Validate the key.
+
+```
+$ id=37A8E93F5D7E7B9A
+$ gpg --recv-key $id
+$ gpg --check-sig $id
+$ gpg --export $id | sudo apt-key add -
+```
+
+See the apt-key(8) manual page for more information about the APT key database, including how to remove keys you don't want anymore.
+
+Install the key.
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-key add apt-gpg-key.asc
+```
+
+3. Get the packages
+
+Configure apt to use the repository.
+
+```
+$ sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/novena.list http://apt.cryptech.is/novena/sources.list
+```
+
+Update the package index file.
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get update
+```
+
+Get the cryptech meta-package.
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get install cryptech-novena
+```
+
+This installs the ```cryptech-novena-rtl``` and ```cryptech-novena-sw``` packages.
+
+The ```cryptech-novena-rtl``` package includes an ```init.d``` script that configures the FPGA on system startup. This script should run automatically as part of the install process.
+
+### Updating the packages
+
+Once you've performed the steps above you should be able to upgrade to newer
+version of the code using the normal APT upgrade process, eg:
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get update
+$ sudo apt-get upgrade
+```
+
+## Setting up PKCS!#11
+
+The PKCS11 token is in /usr/lib/libpkcs11.so. In order to start using it you need to set a pin and an SO pin. This you do with p11util thus:
+
+```
+(echo 12345678;echo 1234) | sudo p11util --set-so-pin --set-user-pin --pin-from-stdin
+```
+
+It is strongly suggested to change the so pin and pin (in that order above) to something sensible. Now your token is ready to use. Your favorite PKCS11-client may or may not work depending on the state of support for PKCS11 function calls - please open tickets for whatever is missing. If you want/need to talk PKCS11 from another host, you could install and configure [[PKCS11Proxy]] on both the novena and your host. Note that currently pkcs11-proxy doesn't handle differing word-lengths so your client-side will have to be 32bit (since the novena is).
+
+
+## Setting up the lab signer
+
+The lab DNSSEC signer MUST, at this point, be running on a 32-bit system in order to work with the 32-bit Novena.
+
+[[https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8b4s9vic7hsqyb/cryptech-proxy-lab-20150718r2.pdf]]([https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8b4s9vic7hsqyb/cryptech-proxy-lab-20150718r2.pdf])