Try using a more recent version of BouncyCastle? (e.g. 1.50).

Colm.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well strangely, after adding bcprov-jdk16 version 140 as a Maven
> dependency, I consistently get the "Unable to verify OCSP Responder's
> signature" exception, regardless of whether I have one OCSP signing cert or
> multiple OCSP signers in the truststore.  When I take out all the signing
> certs, I get "Cannot find the responder's certificate (set using the OCSP
> security properties)". I removed bcprov as a dependency from Maven, and ran
>  "mvn dependency:purge-local-repository" and rebuilt the STS, but still get
> the same results.
>
> I have verified with OpenSSL that the responder is up and active, and
> using the expected signing certificate to sign messages. So as far as I can
> tell, this is something to do with adding bcprov as a maven dependency, and
> I can't figure out how it's still impacting even after it's been removed.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Stephen W. Chappell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chappell, Stephen CTR (FAA)
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 8:33 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: CXF & OCSP Signers
>
> Colm -
>
> Adding bcprov-jdk16 version 140 as a Maven dependency did fix the
> consistency issue - now I consistently get the "Unable to verify OCSP
> Responder's signature" exception. I am guessing that's because of the order
> of certificates in the truststore more so than anything else.
>
> The issue I think boils down to getting Java, etc., to utilize multiple
> OCSP signing certificates. I've verified that multiple entries in the
> java.security file aren't helpful, only the last one parsed is used, so
> that's no help. And in my deployment, I'm not going to be able to guarantee
> that any particular STS has to deal only with a single OCSP signing
> certificate. So I really need a way to deal with at least two OCSP signing
> certificates.
>
> I have a pretty messy solution in mind that I could try, but I'll look
> into bouncy castle first to see if there's anything there that can help.
>
> Stephen W. Chappell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colm O hEigeartaigh [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 6:24 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CXF & OCSP Signers
>
> You've reminded me of something I read recently:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19897598/bouncycastle-provider-and-java-sun-provider-interopability-issue
>
> "The problem with your code is that SUN's provider implementation of
> CertStore.getCertificates() returns HashSet. And HashSet makes no
> guarantees as to the iteration order of the set; in particular, it does not
> guarantee that the order will remain constant over time."
>
> If you add "bcprov" as a dependency do you see the same random failures?
>
> Colm.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > My apologies if this is the wrong place for this question, as it's not
> > strictly a CXF issue, but I'm hoping someone might be able to kick me
> > in the right direction ...
> >
> > In my architecture, the STS I am building will need to check
> > certificate revocation against one of a set of OCSP responders.
> > Revocation checking works well using the standard Java configuration,
> that is not an issue.
> > What is an issue though is that we are using a hierarchical OCSP
> > architecture, with multiple OCSP signers, each with their own
> certificate.
> > So when checking the status of a cert against a responder, depending
> > on the health of everything in the system, the revocation response
> > could be signed with any one of those OCSP signing certs.
> >
> > With a single signing cert, I can add that cert to the CXF STS's
> > truststore, and revocation checking works perfectly. I had thought
> > that if I added additional signing certs to the trust store, Java
> > would just match the cert in the OCSP response against any of the
> > certs in the truststore, but instead it looks like Java just gets
> > confused and randomly picks one to match against - it may not be
> > random, but it's not consistent as I'll sometimes get "Unable to
> > verify OCSP Responder's signature" errors kicked out, and sometimes get
> the proper status.
> >
> > Again, my apologies if this question is misdirected. Any help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Stephen W. Chappell
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Colm O hEigeartaigh
>
> Talend Community Coder
> http://coders.talend.com
>



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