Hi Eamonn,
In TLS mutual authentication the client does not send a certificate.
If the server has been configured for clientAuthentication, the server
sends a challenge message to the client requesting that it reply with a
signed version of the challenge. The client looks to see what user it is
running as. This is probably in some configuration file completely
separate from any of the WS-security stuff which is all about signing
the soap messages.
I haven't tried to use cxf https yet, but you should be looking for a
username that indexes to a keyEntry in some keystore or else just a
pkcs12 file (or a keystore with just one keyentry) for the client.
I just found this link which seems relevant
http://osdir.com/ml/java.jetty.support/2003-01/msg00243.html. Apparently
in the Java implementations the server sends a list of acceptable certs
or cert issuers, which the client tries to match. There is a
setKeyStore method in
org.mortbay.jetty.security.SslSocketConnector
you could use to select a keystore with just one keyentry, which might
do what you want.
Hope this helps a bit. There tends to be a lot of confusion about users,
keys and certificates especially if you are using both TLS and WS-Security.
Mary
Michael Szalay wrote:
Hi
yes, thats that I was looking for. Its just the tls authentication...
Is there a programmatic way to set that property you mentioned to a client to
send a specific certificate?
Regards Michael
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Eamonn Dwyer [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Mai 2009 11:42
An: [email protected]
Betreff: RE: AW: Send X509Certificate with request
Hi Michael
I'm just getting back to your original question, - does the authentication have to be done "above" the transport or could you just let the TLS mutual authentication mechanism do the work for you?
For example just setting the following on endpoint's tlsServerParameter configuration would force the client to present a certificate to the service for authentication
<cxfsec:clientAuthentication want="true" required="true"/>
Regards,
Eamonn
-----Original Message-----
From: Mayank Mishra [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 25 May 2009 12:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AW: Send X509Certificate with request
Hi Michael,
I remember one way to send the public key certificate with your request from
client to server. There is a "DirectReference" KeyIdentifier for Signature
operation (make "signatureKeyIdentifier" property to "DirectReference").
If we use this your certificate is included as a BinarySecurityToken (BST)
in the message and a direct reference to this BST is used. But at the
receiving side (say on server) you have to manually tweak the code of WSS4J
to extract out the certificate yourself.
With Regards,
Mayank
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed May 20 2009 9:32:34 am Tom wrote:
AFAIK you do not add a certificate to the request, the request only is
signed. Certificates are added to the keystores on each side, so the
signature can be created / verified.
Not ALWAYS true. If the WS-SecurityPolicy specifies an KeyValueToken as a
token type, then the Security engine would output an RSAKeyValue key in the
security header which WOULD be the full key. That key can then be used
to
sign the message, encrypt, etc.... Not really "secure", but useful for an
endorsing mechanism.
On the receiving side, you WOULD need to write a callback handler to
validate
the key. By default, WSS4J will reject the key as it won't know whether
to
trust it or not.
Dan
Tom
Michael Szalay wrote:
Thanks for the link. But the document describes the signing of the
request, not adding a certificate to the http request for mutual
authentication, right?
Regards
Michael
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Glen Mazza [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 15:19
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: Send X509Certificate with request
http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/implementing_ws_security_with_the?
HTH,
Glen
mszalay wrote:
Hi all
I have a question using Apache CXF as a client for a web service.
I would like to send a certificate within the request for mutual
authentication.
How can I programmatically add a certificate to the request?
I looked for a method like TLSClientParameters.addCertificate but
I have not found somehing like that.
Regards
Michael
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