[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JGRP-372) TCP with SSL

TCP with SSL ------------ Key: JGRP-372 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JGRP-372 Project: JGroups Issue Type: Feature Request Affects Versions: 2.4 Reporter: Bela Ban Assigned To: Bela Ban Fix For: 2.5 Attachments: tcp_ssl.jar From Hal Hildebrand: Here's the straight TCP version, as I am still working on the handshake implementation for the TCP_NIO_SSL protocol. This protocol stack element provides security and authentication (using client side authentication) for a JGroups TCP stack. Like the NIO version, this required four minor modifications in the ConnectionTable class. These modifications allow one to subclass to create a connection table which uses SSL for the connections. Finally, there is a new protocol stack element, TCP_SSL, which one can add to a stack to make use of it. As with my previous request, it would be nice to have the changes to ConnectionTable make it into the mainline, as I currently have to overwrite the original class to easily implement this. The mods are simple and innocuous (marked with "HSH"). Right now, the TCP_SSL needs to be configured with an SSLContext. I didn't bother with integrating with the normal JGroups mechanism using properties from the configuration because I consider it inherently insecure to ensconce my passwords in configuration files, but the changes to enable this are straight forward. Currently, to configure the factory for the protocol layer, do something like the following before connecting your channel: // Construct your Jchannel JChannel jchannel = ... // Access your protocol stack ProtocolStack protocolStack = jchannel.getProtocolStack(); // Retrieve the TCP_SSL protocol layer TCP_SSL protocol = (TCP_SSL) protocolStack.findProtocol("TCP_SSL"); // Create your SSLContext SSLContext sslContext = .... // Set up the protocol protocol.setSslContext(sslContext); // Connect your channel jchannel.connnect("my-group"); Cheers.