Re: [jboss-as7-dev] How hard would it be to support key based auth by default to make life simpler and more secure ?

>> >> These will make all examples that uses maven deploy plugin, cli scripts, arquillian, jboss tools etc. to somehow >> either tell users to type in their username and full password in clear text in pom.xml and other files. >> >> Which sounds worse to me than a default locked down to only localhost…but I'm not a security expert :) >> >> I was wondering how hard it would be to make the authentication support key based auth by default and we make >> the tools use ${user.name} and ${user.home}/.jboss/default.pub and .priv (or some other name) for the public/private keys ? > > You would need a key-based SASL authentication mechanism. There are no > standard ones as of right now. If you know of a key-based SASL > mechanism that you think we should support, let me know and we'll > evaluate it. We would have to do noauth + SSL + trust. I think it's an option worth considering. The big problem though is that we have to have a setup process to generate the certs, which is greater complexity than the user/pass option. We would have to generate a host key pair and a client key pair.