Hi Russ,

There is a default Java truststore located at
$JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts that you should use.

Cannon



On Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 5:50 PM Russell Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have hesitated between providing some huge tl;dr exposé and something
> shorter. I'll do shorter here.
>
> 0. For now, I'm using "changeit" below as password rolling a self-signed
> certificate for key, key store and trust store.
> 1. I have a service running in Tomcat that I hit via HTTPs because the
> content always involves personal health information.
> 2. I use a key store containing my certificate. No trust store is needed
> or involved in Tomcat.
> 3. I need to hit my Tomcat service using *InvokeHTTP* in my flow.
> 4. This means configuring an instance of
> *Standard[Restricted]SSLContextService*.
> 5. The SSL context service insists on a defined key store with key
> password and key store password.
> 6. The SSL context service insists on a defined trust store. The best I
> have been able to do is to roll the key store certificate into a trust
> store.
> 7. When either key- or trust store file is missing, the SSL context
> service complains that a resource is missing (for key store or trust store).
> 8. Once both files/resources exist, all three passwords appear crucial.
> 9. Despite password used to create key and certificates, it is always
> wrong according to SSL context service validator which consistently issues:
>
> *Keystore Properties is invalid because invalid keystore password or type
> specified for file __________.*
> *Truststore Properties is invalid because invalid truststore password or
> type specified for file __________.*
>
> It would be nice to see a step-by-step illustration of creating the key,
> key store and trust store artifacts required by SSL context service and
> perhaps the full configuration of the SSL context service.
>
> Other notes:
>
> 1. I seem to get pretty far toward a solution using Java's keytool.
> 2. I don't get very far using openssl.
> 3. I get even less traction trying to use NiFi's TLS toolkit to solve this.
> 4. I guess I could simply write my own SSL context service that doesn't
> require a trust store?
>
> Huge thanks for any help or comments.
>
> Russ
>
> P.S. I have a scratch sheet that reveals how I created artifacts and
> thought through the problem at:
>
>     https://www.javahotchocolate.com/notes/keytool-experience.html
>

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