Hi Michael I'm just getting back to your original question, - does the authentication have to be done "above" the transport or could you just let the TLS mutual authentication mechanism do the work for you? For example just setting the following on endpoint's tlsServerParameter configuration would force the client to present a certificate to the service for authentication <cxfsec:clientAuthentication want="true" required="true"/>
Regards, Eamonn -----Original Message----- From: Mayank Mishra [mailto:mayank...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 May 2009 12:51 To: users@cxf.apache.org Subject: Re: AW: Send X509Certificate with request Hi Michael, I remember one way to send the public key certificate with your request from client to server. There is a "DirectReference" KeyIdentifier for Signature operation (make "signatureKeyIdentifier" property to "DirectReference"). If we use this your certificate is included as a BinarySecurityToken (BST) in the message and a direct reference to this BST is used. But at the receiving side (say on server) you have to manually tweak the code of WSS4J to extract out the certificate yourself. With Regards, Mayank On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed May 20 2009 9:32:34 am Tom wrote: > > AFAIK you do not add a certificate to the request, the request only is > > signed. Certificates are added to the keystores on each side, so the > > signature can be created / verified. > > Not ALWAYS true. If the WS-SecurityPolicy specifies an KeyValueToken as a > token type, then the Security engine would output an RSAKeyValue key in the > security header which WOULD be the full key. That key can then be used > to > sign the message, encrypt, etc.... Not really "secure", but useful for an > endorsing mechanism. > > On the receiving side, you WOULD need to write a callback handler to > validate > the key. By default, WSS4J will reject the key as it won't know whether > to > trust it or not. > > Dan > > > > > Tom > > > > Michael Szalay wrote: > > > Thanks for the link. But the document describes the signing of the > > > request, not adding a certificate to the http request for mutual > > > authentication, right? > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: Glen Mazza [mailto:glen.ma...@gmail.com] > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 15:19 > > > An: users@cxf.apache.org > > > Betreff: Re: Send X509Certificate with request > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/implementing_ws_security_with_the? > > > > > > HTH, > > > Glen > > > > > > mszalay wrote: > > >> Hi all > > >> > > >> I have a question using Apache CXF as a client for a web service. > > >> I would like to send a certificate within the request for mutual > > >> authentication. > > >> > > >> How can I programmatically add a certificate to the request? > > >> I looked for a method like TLSClientParameters.addCertificate but > > >> I have not found somehing like that. > > >> > > >> Regards > > >> > > >> Michael > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org > http://www.dankulp.com/blog >
