I really don't remember the details here. I suspect once we got all 
Eclipse projects signing with a real cert verified by an authority trusted 
by the JVM, this wasn't a big issue for us. In the end, asking an end user 
to make a trust decision on a self-signed or unverified cert is silly 
anyway. There is no way an end user could make an informed trust decision 
based on that information, and if we did persist the decision, it would 
essentially be "I know it's not trusted but please stop asking me". It 
looks like KeyStoreTrustEngine registered by the framework is capable of 
persisting changes though, if the system is configured properly. If Scott 
or anyone else is interested in the trust persistence aspect I suggest 
opening a bug and we go from there.

John



From:   Thomas Watson <tjwat...@us.ibm.com>
To:     Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org>, 
Date:   01/02/2013 10:20 AM
Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] TrustEngine and other security services
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Thanks John,

I see that the code you mention does use a TrustEngine to attempt to 
persist newly trusted certificates.  But I wonder if there are any 
implementations of the TrustEngine service that are not read-only.  The 
framework registers a built-in TrustEngine that is backed by the CA certs 
that are configured with the VM but this TrustEngine is read-only.

Tom



John Arthorne ---01/02/2013 08:43:48 AM---p2 uses the TrustEngine to 
persist newly trusted certificates after  prompting the user. See org.ecl

From: John Arthorne <john_artho...@ca.ibm.com>
To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org>, 
Date: 01/02/2013 08:43 AM
Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] TrustEngine and other security services
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p2 uses the TrustEngine to persist newly trusted certificates after 
prompting the user. See org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.
CertificateChecker. 

http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git/tree/bundles/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/src/org/eclipse/equinox/internal/p2/engine/phases/CertificateChecker.java
 


John 



From:        Thomas Watson <tjwat...@us.ibm.com> 
To:        Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org>, 
Date:        01/02/2013 09:28 AM 
Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] TrustEngine and other security services 
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The TrustEngine is largely used as an implementation detail behind the 
org.eclipse.osgi.signedcontent package.  OSGi services published with 
using the org.eclipse.osgi.service.security.TrustEngine interface are used 
to determine the authenticity of a certificate chain used to sign content 
(jars, bundles etc.).  I did not remember p2 using the TrustEngine 
directly, but perhaps it does for authenticating other types of 
certificates.

Sorry, other than the javadoc published for the packages there is not a 
lot of documentation here.

Tom



Pascal Rapicault ---12/29/2012 03:51:46 AM---The p2 engine makes use of 
the TrustEngine, however I don't remember the details of how it works. Yo

From: Pascal Rapicault <pas...@rapicault.net>
To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@eclipse.org>, 
Date: 12/29/2012 03:51 AM
Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] TrustEngine and other security services
Sent by: equinox-dev-boun...@eclipse.org



The p2 engine makes use of the TrustEngine, however I don't remember the 
details of how it works.
You may also want to poke around at other parts of p2 as I just happen to 
remember about this ref in the engine, but there may be others.

HTH

Pascal

On 2012-12-29, at 5:47 AM, Scott Lewis wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there documentation on Equinox security services like 
org.eclipse.osgi.service.security.TrustEngine service...and 
implementation?  I looked in the Equinox Security area [1], but didn't 
find a lot of service/API docs.   Is/are there examples of using the 
TrustEngine service(s)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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