Hi,

There's a vote on "jakarta-general" to have Jakarta sponsor
"not-yet-commons-ssl" for incubation.  I thought Synapse might be
interested.

I recently did an "alpha" release (0.3.7) of "not-yet-commons-ssl" to help
interop with Oleg's NIO-SSL stuff.  Please take a look if you have some
time!

http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/

Here's a code example:

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SSLClient client = new SSLClient();

// Let's trust usual "cacerts" that come with Java.
// (This is actually redundant unless a previous
// setTrustMaterial() had wiped out the DEFAULT trust.)
client.addTrustMaterial( TrustMaterial.DEFAULT );

// Plus, let's also trust a self-signed cert.
client.addTrustMaterial( new TrustMaterial( "/path/to/self-signed.pem" ) );

// To be different, let's allow for expired certificates (not recommended).
client.setCheckExpiry( false );
client.setCheckCRL( true );

// Let's load a client certificate.  Can be OpenSSL style PEM
// or Netscape PCKS12 or Java Keystore format.
// Max: 1 private-key per SSLClient instance.
KeyMaterial km;
km  = new KeyMaterial( "/path/to/client.pfx", "secret".toCharArray() );
client.setKeyMaterial( km );

// Get the SSLContext object to feed into Oleg's SSL-NIO module.
SSLContext context = client.getSSLContext();

// [later....]
String hostname = "mydomain.com";
X509Certificate cert = extractFromSSLSession();  // however you do that

// It will throw an SSLException if verification fails.
HostnameVerifier.DEFAULT.check( hostname, cert );
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not-yet-common-ssl also includes good support for hostname verification in
all its sundry variations (wildcards, subject alt names, both at the same
time!).  But when using NIO-SSL you need to extract the X509Certificate and
pass it into the HostnameVerifier.DEFAULT object.  It's not automatic with
NIO.  It's only automatic with the blocking SSL.

We based our hostname verification on this documentation:
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/VhostTaskForce

http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/javadocs/org/apache/commons/ssl/HostnameVerifier.html

[Sorry about the rich-text.  I'll follow up with a plain-text copy.]

--
yours,

Julius Davies
416-652-0183
http://juliusdavies.ca/

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