Certificate Based Authentication and SSL

To whom it may concern,
I have installed SJES on Solaris 9 x386 (intel version). Everything is running fine, the mails are also coming and going.
Now, I need Certificate based authentication and SSL. I have downloaded versign.com trial certificate and have install it succesfully in the Messaging Server Console -- > Manage Certificates. The certificate is also visible in its tab.
Next, I followed the documentation and enable ssl by using ./configutil utility. And also restarted the server.
I am running my Messenger express (http) like this :
http://testing.xyz.com:8100
(I am using port 8100 for http access to mails). After restarting the mail server, I tried :
https://testing.xyz.com:8100 also,
http://testing.xyz.com:443 also,
https://testing.xyz.com:443 also,
but I cannot see the login page of the mail server. All the above mention url i tried and just given error "the connection was refused when attempting to contact testing.xyz.com. I CAN ONLY SEE THE LOGIN PAGE WHEN I WRITE THE OLD HTTP ADDRESS: i.e. http://testing.xyz.com:8100
And I also checked the logs and the server is having no problem in starting and there is not a single word regarding SSL enabling in the logs.
Please help me out, it's really a strange behaviour. I am using SunONE Messaging Server 6.0.
Thanking you,
Farhan Ahmed,
System Engineer
Dubai, UAE.

Dear jay,
I am pasting a line from imap and http logs ... i don't know what this error means and how to resolve it.
[29/Dec/2004:14:42:45 +0100] testing imapd[888]: General Error: SSL initialization error: ASockSSL_Init: couldn't find cert Server-Cert (-8183)
strange thing is that my certificate name is lowercase server-cert and also i can see in the GUI console the certificate name as lowercase and I have also set this parameter encryption.rsa.nssslpersonalityssl = server-cert (all lowercase), but the error in the log tells it as "Server-Cert" !!!! though it is "server-cert"
i got this line from the http log:
[29/Dec/2004:14:42:47 +0100] testing httpd[894]: General Error: SSL initialization error: ASockSSL_Init: couldn't find cert Server-Cert (-8183)
I haven't missed the sslpassword.conf file step. I have placed the same password which i provided while generating the certificate request in the GUI.
Help me out what this errors means and how to resolve them. I have also copied the cert7.db and key3.db to /opt/SUNWms*/config directory from the /var/opt/mps/serverroot/alias
Thanking you,
Farhan Ahmed,
System Engineer,
Dubai Internet City, Dubai, UAE.

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Cyril,
Thanks for the reply.
I believe I am doing both types of certificate authentication, you are describing. My issue is that when I perform the steps to store the PEM formatted cert into the directory server, rather than storing a binary value of the cert, it appears to be storing the path to the file I attempted to import. The odd part is that I can still authenticate even after this is done.
I tried to post as much info as I could before without posting any sensitive data, I'll try and expand on that below.
Here is my documentation of the steps taken to configure the server and setup a user, for what I believe to be certificate based authentication, where the user is authenticated solely on the certificate that they provide (no password is sent).
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--------i. /ldap/dsee7/bin/certutil -A -n "certname" -t "u,," -a -i certfile.cer -d certdb
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--------i. ldapmodify
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------------2)
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------------sn: Service Account
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------------nsSizeLimit: -1
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ldapsearch -h host -p 1636 -b "o=company" -N "certname" -Z -W CERTDBPASSWORD -P certdb/cert8.db "(uid=anotherID)"
This search is successful, and I can see it logged, as having been a certificate based authentication:
[23/Mar/2012:13:25:20 -0500] conn=44605 op=-1 msgId=-1 - fd=136 slot=136 LDAPS connection from x.x.x.x:53574 to x.x.x.x
[23/Mar/2012:13:25:20 -0500] conn=44605 op=-1 msgId=-1 - SSL 128-bit RC4; client CN=userid,OU=company,L=city,ST=state,C=US; issuer CN=issuer,DC=corp,DC=company,DC=lan
[23/Mar/2012:13:25:20 -0500] conn=44605 op=-1 msgId=-1 - SSL client bound as uid=userid,ou=employees,o=company
[23/Mar/2012:13:25:20 -0500] conn=44605 op=0 msgId=1 - BIND dn="" method=sasl version=3 mech=EXTERNAL
If I understand correctly that would be using the part 2 of your explanation as using the binary encoded PEM to authenticate the user. If I am not understanding that corretly please let me know.
Now the part that I am really not getting is that the usercertificate that is stored on the ID is as below:
dn: uid=userid,ou=employees,o=company
usercertificate;binary:: PCBmaWxlOi8vL2hvbWUvdXNlcmlkL0NlcnRzL3VzZXJpZC5iaW4
which decodes as: < file:///home/userid/Certs/userid.bin
So I'm still unclear as to what is going on here, or what I've done wrong. Have I set this up incorrectly such that Part 2 as you described it is not what I have setup above? Or am I missunderstanding part 2 entirely?
Thanks
Brian
Edited by: BrianS on Mar 23, 2012 12:14 PM
Just adding ---- to keep my instruction steps indented.

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I've been asked to implement certificate-based authentication (CBA)
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If the above is yes, what is the minnimal level of SSL? Does it have
to be two-way?
If SSL has to be turned on is there any reason to use the load
balancer's SSL? Is there still a performance benefit?

Hi George,
If you want the client's cert, the server has to ask for it and this
implies two-way SSL. Normal one-way SSL the server provides the cert to
the client and the client decides if it wants to continue the handshake.
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Concerning the load balancer I'm assuming it is simply providing a
tunnel, but I don't have the experience to comment and it is something I
would suggest that you that you seek guidance from our outstanding
support team [1] or drop a note in the security newsgroup [2] for the
experts to review.
Regards,
Bruce
[1]
http://support.bea.com
[email protected]
[2]
http://newsgroups.bea.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=xover&group=weblogic.developer.interest.security
George Coller wrote:
>
I've been asked to implement certificate-based authentication (CBA)
on a weblogic cluster serving up web services. I've read through
Chapter 10 (security) and understand the "Identity Assertion" concept.
Environment:
Weblogic 8.1 cluster fronted by a load-balancer that handles SSL and
uses sticky-sessions.
Question:
If the load balancer is used to handle SSL, do I still need to turn
on SSL on the weblogic cluster in order to use CBA? Is there another
way to request the client's certificate?
If the above is yes, what is the minnimal level of SSL? Does it have
to be two-way?
If SSL has to be turned on is there any reason to use the load
balancer's SSL? Is there still a performance benefit?

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3. When launching java applications you can set system properties as
part of the command line using the follwing format
"-D<property_name>=<property_value>", we failed to find the analogous in
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</security-constraint>
<security-role>
        <role-name>somerole</role-name>
</security-role>
<login-config>
        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
        <realm-name></realm-name>
</login-config>Code your ResourceProvider servlet to grant access only if:
- Connection is secure (ssl).
- URL pattern is "/resources/secret/browser/*" and client has pass realm.
- URL pattern is "/resources/secret/javaws/secretkey/*" (where secretkey is a pin kept both by client and server)
To Install app from browser (access private.jnpl) use "/resources/secret/browser/*" url pattern and basic auth.
To download app resources configure jnlp file as follow:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="https://host:port/AppRoot/resources/" href="secret/javaws/secretkey/private.jnlp
    <information>
         <icon href="icon.png"/>
    </information>
    <resources>
        <j2se version="1.6+"/>
        <jar href="secret/javaws/secretkey/private.jar" />
        <jar href="public.jar" />
    </resources>
</jnlp>
{code}
And last you need to do is configure ssl connector on tomcat server as follow:
{code}
<Connector port="port"
         scheme="https"
         secure="true"
         SSLEnabled="true"
         clientAuth="false"
         sslProtocol="TLS"
/>
{code}
Pay attention to "clientAuth" param. Set it to "false" to avoid javaws splash cert choose dialog on every app update.
Hope it help!

Certificate based authentication using amclientsdk

Hi there,
We have written custom authentication framework around the amclientsdk. we are able to use the basic authentication (user/password) service configured in access manager for authentication. But we also like to do certificate based authentication where the user choose the the logon using certificate link and certificate from browser will be preseneted to our custom framework and from there i am using the AM API to invoke Cert auth service.It didn't work and reports User certificate not found error. I don't how to present the retrived user certificate to access manager as there is no call backs for Cert auth service.
Our custom application and access manager are running under different sun web server instance. And both configured for SSL (client authentication not required mode).
I tried changing the access manager instance to SSL client authentication required mode that time it sent 403 error code. but i need the previous scenario to work.

Hi there
I've got to get this working aswell.
In my case I've got to have both the user/password authentication OR certificate based.
The thing is, the documentation says that I need to have the containers (don't know if both the am server and the agent containers or only one of them ) with SSL and "Client Authentication enabled"... now the problem is, when I make it Client Authentication Enabled the container gives me a similar error to the one you described, this is because the server requests the browser to send a certificate when trying to access the server .....
Can you give me any pointers to how this is supposed to be done? I would really appreciate help with this.
Thanks
Rp

OCSP Validation in Certificate-Based Authentication

Hi,
Has anybody done OCSP Validation in Certificate-Based Authentication ? If yes - then please describe how can we configure an OCSP responder for Certificate Validation?
Regards,
YK

Hi,
Thanx for all of ur replies :)
I am now able to do lot of stuff using Identity Server :)
My main target is to use Identity Server for certificate-based authentication by enabling OCSP validation.
First I configured Web server to enable SSL and client authentication. Then I configured Identity Server and enabled the Certificate based authentication. I edited the certificate authentication properties and enabled the OCSP validation check. I provided the OCSP responder address and corresponding CA name in AMConfig.properties.
Now I am testing this setup up as follows.
1- I try to access the default index page by following URL
https://identity-1.identity.com:58090/
2- It asks for client certificate to choose from available certificates
3- I select a certificate (issuer of this cert is configured for OCSP validation) and proceed
4- Identity Server make an OCSP request and send it to my OCSP responder
5- OCSP responder response with revocation status 'good'
6- Now I get the server certificate on browser
7- I press OK and I see the index page of Identity Server
I think it is working fine now :)
now if in step 3, I select a wrong certificate i.e. issuer of this certificate is not configured for OCSP validation then It shows the DNS Error Page. Why dont it show the proper authentication failed page of Identity Server? If I see the error log for the web server I see the following error:
[03/Jun/2003:11:18:10] failure ( 1692): Error receiving connection (unable to map error number -8062)
What does it mean ? Any ideas ?
Regards,
Yasir Khan

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