Hi Paul,

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

As new managers get registered with OC dynamically(not pre configured) and
manager node of particular cluster starts the registration process, I am
wondering whether we can use above approach in such an environment?

Thanks,
Shameera.


>
> 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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