SSL How to

1. C++ broker (M4 and up)
2. Java Client

C++ broker (M4 and up)

• You need to get a certificate signed by a CA, trusted by your client.

• If you require client authentication, the clients certificate needs to be signed by a CA trusted by the broker.

• Setting up the certificates for testing.
  • For testing purposes you could use the following guide to setup your certificates.
  • In summary you need to create a root CA and import it to the brokers certificate data base.
  • Create a certificate for the broker, sign it using the root CA and then import it into the brokers certificate data base.

• Load the acl module using --load-module or if loading more than one module, copy ssl.so to the location pointed by --module-dir

  Ex if running from source. ./qpidd --load-module /libs/ssl.so 

• Specify the password file (a plain text file with the password), certificate database and the brokers certificate name using the following options

  Ex ./qpidd ... --ssl-cert-password-file ~/pfile --ssl-cert-db ~/server_db/ --ssl-cert-name localhost.localdomain 

• If you require client authentication you need to add --ssl-require-client-authentication as a command line argument.

• Please note that the default port for SSL connections is 5671, unless specified by --ssl-port

Here is an example of a broker instance that requires SSL client side authenticaiton

./qpidd ./qpidd --load-module /libs/ssl.so --ssl-cert-password-file ~/pfile --ssl-cert-db ~/server_db/ --ssl-cert-name localhost.localdomain --ssl-require-client-authentication

Java Client (M4 and up)

• This guide is for connecting with the Qpid c++ broker.

• Setting up the certificates for testing. In summary,
  • You need to import the trusted CA in your trust store and keystore
  • Generate keys for the certificate in your key store
  • Create a certificate request using the generated keys
  • Create a certficate using the request, signed by the trusted CA.
  • Import the signed certificate into your keystore.

• Pass the following JVM arguments to your client.

   
     -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=/home/bob/ssl_test/keystore.jks 
     -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=password
     -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/home/bob/ssl_test/certstore.jks 
     -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=password