Thanx, Vishnu. I saw that, and spent most of the morning trying to build a cert chain that way. I started with PEM certs, cat'd them together in the correct order, converted them to PKCS7 with openssl crl2pkcs7, and imported the pkcs7 with keytool. In every case, keytool only imported one cert, not the whole chain. Maybe this is a Java issue (I'm using Java 6), but the man page says it should work. It also says that if you import a cert with a private key, that it'll build a cert chain ... when I tried that with a server cert I had, it built a cert chain of length 1 instead of 3. That's when I posted the question.
Stephen W. Chappell -----Original Message----- From: Vishnu Radhakrishnan [mailto:vis...@10point1.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:28 AM To: users@cxf.apache.org; cohei...@apache.org Subject: Re: Using a custom CertPathChecker >From the keytool man - it imports certificate chain, if input is given in PKCS#7 format, otherwise only the single certificate is imported. You should be able to convert certificates to PKCS#7 format with openssl, via openssl crl2pkcs7 command. On 2015-04-07, 10:17, "stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov" <stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov> wrote: >Colm - > >This seems like it should be easier than it is, but can you point me to >a resource for properly building a truststore with a certificate chain? >I have separate keystores and trust stores for the STS, and the >truststore should have a chain something like: > >Root CA >>> Intermediate CA >>> Issuing CA > >I had thought that if I added them with keytool in the right order, >that keytool would establish a cert chain. Instead it just adds them as >individual certificates with no cert chain to be found. > >Stephen W. Chappell > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chappell, Stephen CTR (FAA) >Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 8:21 AM >To: cohei...@apache.org >Cc: users@cxf.apache.org >Subject: RE: Using a custom CertPathChecker > >Well, that must be the issue. I just ran it through the debugger, and >getCertificateChain is returning null each time. I¹ve added code in my >subclassed Merlin to be able to walk up the tree, but it¹d be more >efficient if the truststore was built properly so I¹ll try to figure >that out. > >Stephen W. Chappell > >From: Colm O hEigeartaigh [mailto:cohei...@apache.org] >Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 8:12 AM >To: Chappell, Stephen CTR (FAA) >Cc: users@cxf.apache.org >Subject: Re: Using a custom CertPathChecker > >Ok cool. Just bear in mind that WSS4J won't wire up the trust chain >using individual certs stored in the truststore, the intermediate cert >must have the issuing cert stored as part of the certificate chain entry. >Colm. > >On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:02 PM, ><stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov<mailto:stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov>> wrote: >Colm > >That is the case, at least I thought it was. The truststore has certs >for the issuer, intermediate, and root CA, plus a few other >miscellaneous certs. I¹ll run it through the debugger later this >morning and see what turns up. > >Stephen W. Chappell > >From: Colm O hEigeartaigh >[mailto:cohei...@apache.org<mailto:cohei...@apache.org>] >Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:59 AM >To: Chappell, Stephen CTR (FAA) >Cc: users@cxf.apache.org<mailto:users@cxf.apache.org> >Subject: Re: Using a custom CertPathChecker > >"getX509Certificates" calls "getCertificates" which (first) calls >"getCertificateChain" on the keystore. Your intermediate CA should have >the issuing CA certs stored as part of the entry in the >keystore/truststore. Is this not the case? Can you debug into >getCertificates() and find out why it is only returning a single cert? >Colm. > >On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:34 PM, ><stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov<mailto:stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov>> wrote: >Colm - > >While I was mucking around in Merlin, I noted that in the "second step" >section of verifyTrust, only the immediate issuer of the cert to be >checked is added to the cert path (at least in my case, when >getX509Certificates only returns a single cert rather than a cert chain). >I have a requirement to validate all the certs in the cert path, which >in my case has an additional intermediate before getting to the trust >anchor. I'm able to loop there and get everything into the cert path, >which seems to get everything revocation checked so that is good. But I >was curious why only the immediate issuer was added to begin with - is >there some issue I should be considering that I'm not? > >There's also an open question (or rather, open disagreement) about >revocation checking the Root CA cert, but this list is probably not the >right place for that discussion. > >Stephen W. Chappell > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chappell, Stephen CTR (FAA) >Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:56 AM >To: users@cxf.apache.org<mailto:users@cxf.apache.org>; >cohei...@apache.org<mailto:cohei...@apache.org> >Subject: RE: Using a custom CertPathChecker > >Colm - > >No, I don't have any better suggestions. In fact, subclassing Merlin >and adding a method to configure additional PKIX parameters is exactly >what I did. > >Thanx, >Stephen W. Chappell > >-----Original Message----- >From: Colm O hEigeartaigh >[mailto:cohei...@apache.org<mailto:cohei...@apache.org>] >Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:47 AM >To: users@cxf.apache.org<mailto:users@cxf.apache.org> >Subject: Re: Using a custom CertPathChecker > >Hi Stephen, > >There is no way to add CertPathCheckers at the moment, beyond >subclassing Merlin and overriding the "verifyTrust" method. I could add >a method to customize the PKIXParameters object though, that could be >overridden by a subclass though which would be better. Or do you have >any other suggestions? > >Colm. > >On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:11 PM, ><stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov<mailto:stephen.ctr.chapp...@faa.gov>> wrote: > >> I have a requirement to use a custom CertPathChecker in my code. With >>"bare" JVM, I can add the checker to my PKIXParameters and validate >>away. >> But, using Merlin (in WSS4J 1.6.17), there don't appear to be any >>hooks to add a custom checker or customize the PKIXParameters that are >>being used. >> Is there some other means for adding a custom checker to the list >>that isn't so obvious? I could subclass Merlin and sort of brute >>force it in if necessary, but if there's another way to set that up I >>would much rather do that. >> >> Stephen W. Chappell >> > > > >-- >Colm O hEigeartaigh > >Talend Community Coder >http://coders.talend.com > > > >-- >Colm O hEigeartaigh > >Talend Community Coder >http://coders.talend.com > > > >-- >Colm O hEigeartaigh > >Talend Community Coder >http://coders.talend.com
