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Bernt M. Johnsen commented on DERBY-2803:
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I did not get any response on my last comment on this one. Should something be
done with the docs or should this issue be closed?
> SSL certificate authentication succeeds unexpectedly
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> Key: DERBY-2803
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2803
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Security
> Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
> Assignee: Bernt M. Johnsen
> Fix For: 10.3.0.0
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> The following bug report may simply be pilot error. I confess that I am
> having a hard time understanding the user documentation for this feature. The
> user documentation is found in the Derby Admin guide in the section titled
> "SSL/TLS". My confusion arises from the fact that sometimes the documentation
> talks about 3 SSL states (none, basic, peer) and sometimes the documentation
> talks about 4 SSL states (none, basic, client certificate, server
> certificate).
> I tried running an experiment in which the server was setup for "Basic SSL
> encryption":
> 1) I successfully connected to the server when the client was setup for
> "Basic SSL encryption". This I expected so good.
> 2) I also successfully connected to the server when the client was setup for
> "peer (server) authentication". This confused me because the client url was
> requesting peer authentication but the server was booted with just basic ssl
> authentication. That is, the client url requested "ssl=peerAuthentication"
> but the server startup line requested "ssl=basic". I was surprised that the
> two sides of the connection didn't have to agree on how much authentication
> was going to be done.
> 3) I also successfully connected to the server when the client was setup for
> "peer authentication on both sides". This really confused me: It seemed to me
> that there were 2 certificates involved, but the server, via its startup
> properties, should only have been aware of one of these certificates, viz.,
> the certificate identified by the javax.net.ssl.keyStore properties.
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