Ssl client verify

Revision as of 13:45, 6 December 2008

I use Resin 2.1.16 for windows(JDK 1.5.09).

I try to setup the ssl client authority by my ca-certificate-file.

The Resin 3.2 professioncal can use openssl to set the Ca-certificate-file as my ca-cert-file. and use this file to sign the client cert. but in resin 2 , I failed to use openssl to setup ssl configuration.

In some documents I found , It's should be:

<http port='443'>

             <ssl>openssl</ssl>
             <certificate-file>conf/server.crt</certificate-file>
             <certificate-key-file>conf/server.key</certificate-key-file>
             <certificate-key-password>password</certificate-key-password>
             <ca-certificate-file>conf/my-root.crt</ca-certificate-file>
             <verify-client>require</verify-client>
             <verify-depth>5</verify-depth>

</http>

But it cannot work in the windows.

So I use the JSSE to setup this, in resin.conf,

<http port='443'>

            <ssl>true</ssl>
           <key-store-type>jks</key-store-type>
           <key-store-file>conf/server.jks</key-store-file>
           <key-store-password>password</key-store-password>
           <authenticate-client>true</authenticate-client>
           <authenticate-depth>1</authenticate-depth>

</http>

But when I use the IE to visit the server,It can not popup the client certificate which is signed by my-ca-certificate. I have import my-ca-certificate in the server.jks as a trusted certificater. But it doesn't work.

I check some document ,find maybe the resin use the JDK default ca-certificate file as the client trust ca-cert. I find a file named "cacerts" in "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09\jre\lib".and it is a java keystroe file format, it's password is "changeit" I import my-ca-certificate in the cacerts file, and restart the resin. It works!

I try this on the resin 3.1.8, set the follow in the resin.conf:

<http port='443'>

          <jsse-ssl>
           <key-store-type>jks</key-store-type>
           <key-store-file>conf/server.jks</key-store-file>
           <password>password</password>
           <verify-client>required</verify-client>
</jsse-ssl>

</http>

Test ,and it works too.

Pls find the "cacerts" in the JDK or JRE directory.

Steel Lee

2008-12-6