Thanks. I got it. The key was to get the correct key in the keystore. I just 
imported the PKCS12 file into the keystore and all is well.

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> On Oct 20, 2017, at 9:23 AM, Aldrin Piri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am a far cry from a cert pro, but it looks like the results are what I 
> would anticipate given your reuse of nifi_server.key.pem in your JKS.  I 
> don't think you are far away from your intended setup and should be able to 
> create another "user" cert for your minifi instance(s), as you had for your 
> User Cert,  that would uniquely identify it/them.
> 
> Additionally, if you are just doing self signed certificates, you could 
> additionally consider the NiFi TLS Toolkit 
> (http://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html#tls-generation-toolkit)
>  which can help facilitate this process as well.  
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Michael Nacey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> We have been working on security our nifi/minifi setup, and we have been 
>> marginally successful, but there are a few things I can't seem to figure 
>> out. For our setup we have:
>> 
>> CA: created in openssl, intermediate issuer created as well; chain cert 
>> created
>> NIFI Cert: issued by the intermediate
>> User Cert: issued by the intermediate (CN=admin)
>> 
>> NIFI
>> =======
>> Keystore: nifi_server.key.pem
>> Truststore: ca-chain.cert.pem, admin.cert.pem, nifi_server.cert.pem
>> 
>> With this setup, secure cert based browser connection to NIFI works like a 
>> champ using the "admin" identity. I can create an S2S connection to my own 
>> NIFI, and I notice it uses the 'nifi_server' identity to authenticate.
>> 
>> MINIFI
>> ========
>> Keystore: nifi_server.key.pem
>> Truststore: ca-chain.cert.pem, admin.cert.pem, nifi_server.cert.pem
>> 
>> With this setup, MINIFI will connect securely to NIFI, again using the 
>> 'nifi_server' identity. This is not really desirable, since I would want 
>> MINIFI to connect using the "admin" identity (or in real life, one specific 
>> to that instance of MINIFI).
>> 
>> Any ideas how to accomplish this? Am I doing something wrong? I'm kind of 
>> new to the Java keystore stuff.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> -- 
>> “Try to never run out of smokes, ammo, and luck all at the same time. But 
>> remember, if you have ammo, you can always get more smokes, and make your 
>> own luck." G.K. Shirpa
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