So my personal experience is that setting up Mutual SSL and getting the
keys working is not quick or simple. I know its a well-known thing and some
companies will be doing this a lot, but its still an effort. Managing the
SSL keys when they expire is also complex.

I don't see why there can't be a simple one-time password entry by the
administrator the first time they install OC, which will generate the OAuth
key and then we cache it in the secure vault.

Paul


On 29 May 2013 07:17, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I understand the picture. What I don't understand is the statement "it
>> will be more convenient". Can you please explain why Mutual SSL is more
>> convenient than OAuth? It certainly is less convenient for the ops guys who
>> has to set it up!
>>
>
> If we use OAuth we need to have an access token. How to generate this
> access token and where to store that? If we compare this with mutual SSL
> there is a standard way to generate the certificates .Company may already
> have a certificate and we can use jks to store them.
>
>  The problem with the Mutual SSL is once we enable Mutual SSL for a port
> we can not communicate with that port through a browser. So we may need to
> use two ports one for browser and other for mutual SSL.
>
> thanks,
> Amila.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 28 May 2013 08:42, Ananda Manoj Kumara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On WSO2 Operation Center use case we need to securely communication
>>> between OC and Manager nodes (server to server communication) about cluster
>>> information and other management information. According to the design
>>> discussions it was suggested to use 'mutual authentication' during
>>> communications.
>>>
>>> Currently Jaggery did not support server to server communication and it
>>> use OAuth for communication using server credentials. But considering OC
>>> use-cases we need to maintain states of manager nodes periodically with OC
>>> and we feel that it will be more convenient to use mutual authentication
>>> through certs than accessing admin services using current OAuth
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>> Your ideas are welcome about this matter.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Manoj
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards..
>>>
>>>
>>> Manoj Kumara
>>> Software Engineer
>>> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com
>>>
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>>
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