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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to connect from one broker to another using SSL. I am using <a href="https://www.rabbitmq.com/ssl.html">these instructions</a> as my primary guide. I have three certificates/keys involved:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>client_ec_cert.pem (the client’s public key)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>client_ec_pri_key.pem(the client’s private key)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>(3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>root_ec_cert.pm (the authoritative certificate)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First of all, note that we are using <b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525;background:white'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography">Elliptic curve</a></span></b> certs and keys. I wouldn’t have thought that would be a problem, but at this point I am not ruling anything out. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I converted the .pem files from (1) and (3) to .der format using a command from <a href="https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-converter.html">this guide</a> of the following form:<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'>Convert PEM to DER</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><code><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black;border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:4.0pt;background:#F0F0F0'>openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.der</span></code><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I then successfully imported these two .der files into my keystore using a command that looks like this (except with the correct file names and paths, etc).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;padding:4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt;background:#EEEEEE'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt;background:#EEEEEE;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333333'># keytool -import -alias server1 -file /path/to/server/cert.der -keystore /path/to/rabbitstore<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This completed with no errors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For some reason, however, I was unable to convert the private key in (2) in such fashion, and had to do something like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>openssl pkcs12 -export -in </span>client_ec_cert.pem <span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>-inkey </span>client_ec_pri_key.pem<span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> > client.p12<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried several versions of this conversion, and successfully imported a few of the results into my keystore. Each time, however, my java code results in a javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>public final boolean declareBrmExchangesAndQueuesSSL(String brmHostname)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> try<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> char [] keyPassphrase = "password".toCharArray();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS12");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ks.load(new FileInputStream("/etc/rabbitmq/client.p12"), keyPassphrase);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> KeyManagerFactory kmf = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> kmf.init(ks, keyPassphrase);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> char[] trustPassphrase = keyPassphrase;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> KeyStore tks = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> tks.load(new FileInputStream("/usr/local/avamar/lib/avamar_keystore"), trustPassphrase);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> tmf.init(tks);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSLv3");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> context.init(kmf.getKeyManagers(), tmf.getTrustManagers(), new SecureRandom());<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> factory.setHost(brmHostname);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> factory.setPort(5671);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> factory.useSslProtocol(context);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Connection conn = factory.newConnection();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Channel channel = conn.createChannel();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> //rest of code omitted...failure happens right here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal 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New"'> log.log(Level.WARNING, e.getMessage());<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> return false;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> } catch (UnrecoverableKeyException e)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> e.printStackTrace();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> log.log(Level.WARNING, e.getMessage());<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> return false;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> return true;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Am I doing anything obviously incorrectly? I also attempted adding the server’s public key to my client’s keystore, but the result was the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jesse Smithnosky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>