[Hawkular-dev] SSL by default

[Jiri Kremser]

Hi,
  what about creating a default certificate that is issued by a commonly
accepted root CA (at least in the modern browsers, not sure about JVM if
there is something similar). On the internets there is a service
https://letsencrypt.org .I haven't tried yet, but it has also some API for
doing it automatically, so we can even go further. What I've tried is the
https://www.startssl.com and it worked perfectly, I can see the green https
in the chrome :] Both services are for free, but afaik, don't allow to
issue the "star" certificate, but for the dev purposes all we need is the
cert for the localhost, right?

As for the production, we may provide some script + docs how to generate
the cert in the https://letsencrypt.org

my 2c
jk

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Juraci Paixão Kröhling <
jpkroehling at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 25.05.2016 15:16, John Mazzitelli wrote:
> >> My next step is to change the agent to accept certs on our keystore.
> >
> > If everything works as I am expecting it to work, you should just need
> to configure the agent's storage adapter to use the WildFly security realm
> where the keystore is defined, and it should "just work." But then again,
> its been a while since I tested the agent using secure comm to the server,
> but that is how I got it to work last time.
> >
> > See http://www.hawkular.org/docs/user/secure-comm.html
>
> Cool ! That would work for the local agent, which is the scenario I was
> planning on working on. For remote agents, we should *not* do this, as
> the keystore includes the private key for the cert, which should be
> known only to the server. But for the remote agent, I expect the server
> to use a proper certificate chain.
>
> >> Related question: are we even allowed to ship such keystores?
> >
> > It is how RHQ does it :-)
>
> That's good to know, thanks!
>
> >> - As mentioned in the previous point, the cert is self-signed. So, you
> >> might need to add "-k" to curl to bypass the cert verification.
> >> - Authentication with client cert is not yet available.
> >
> >
> > I do not know how to tell WildFly in its security-realm to do this same
> kind of bypass... did you look into that? Because the agent will need to be
> told about doing this bypass, too. The way I worked around it was I
> actually put my self-signed cert into my JVM's truststore (which isn't
> something I think we want to ask people to do).
>
> It depends on the HTTP client you are using. In the "production"
> scenarios, no change is needed, as the cert would probably have a valid
> chain.
>
> For dev scenarios, or scenarios where the cert is issued by an unknown
> root CA (like internal certificates), the common practice is to add the
> root CA to the JVM's keystore, similar to what you did. The reason is
> that this cert is not trusted by any known Certificate Authority, so, an
> admin would have to explicitly tell that this cert is known and is to be
> trusted. The cert we will be shipping on the keystore is *not* trusted
> and is intended to be used only on dev scenarios.
>
> Another practice is to do a certificate pinning, ie, tell your HTTP
> client that you know about this specific cert. The disadvantage of this
> is that we'd have to keep the server and client in sync. Looking at your
> instructions on secure-comm.html , this is probably what you are doing
> on the agent side.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no secure solution that I know of that would
> allow us to ship something usable for our production distribution.
>
> There was a thread some time ago on wildfly-dev about auto generating
> certificates on the first boot. I believe this was part of Elytron and
> we might be able to benefit from this in the future.
>
> - Juca.
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