Github user alopresto commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/695#discussion_r72740653
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nifi-toolkit/nifi-toolkit-tls/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/toolkit/tls/service/TlsCertificateAuthorityClientSocketFactory.java
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+package org.apache.nifi.toolkit.tls.service;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
+import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
+import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x500.style.BCStyle;
+import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x500.style.IETFUtils;
+import org.bouncycastle.cert.jcajce.JcaX509CertificateHolder;
+
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Socket Factory validates that it is talking to a RootCa claiming to
have the given hostname. It adds the certificate
+ * to a list for later validation against the payload's hmac
+ */
+public class TlsCertificateAuthorityClientSocketFactory extends
SSLConnectionSocketFactory {
+ private final String caHostname;
+ private final List<X509Certificate> certificates;
+
+ public TlsCertificateAuthorityClientSocketFactory(SSLContext
sslContext, String caHostname, List<X509Certificate> certificates) {
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Because we are only using this for direct communication between NiFi nodes
and NiFi CAs, we don't have to worry about legacy compatibility, so we can
restrict the TLS protocol version to `TLSv1.2` to enforce a strong protocol
with strong and fast cipher suites.
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