![]() Runmqakm –random –create –length 14 –strong –fips It can be found at c:\program files\ibm\mq\bin\runmqakm or /opt/mqm/bin/runmqakm, if you installed MQ into the default location. You can use another tool provided by IBM to generate a FIPS-compliant password. We will be protecting our key store with a good password. It’s a great tool that can be found at c:\program files\ibm\mq\bin\strmqikm or /opt/mqm/bin/strmqikm, if you installed MQ into the default location. We will use IBM Key Management (ikeyman for short) which is a free utility that comes with many of their products (MQ, WAS, etc). jks) generate more than one file, so, if you move them, make sure to move all of their pertaining files. For example, you can use graphical tools on Windows to configure a key store for a Linux host and then move the file to the Linux box. Tools of the tradeĬonfigured key stores and trust stores are files that can be moved between platforms. The certificate store that stores personal certificates is called a key store. The certificate store that stores the trust chains is called a trust store. ![]() You can download and store all the trust chains from the CAs your company works with and use them for validation. It compares the trust chain sent by the other application to what it has stored. For this reason, it’s called a personal certificate.Īnswering our own question, it is the trust chain that the receiving application uses to validate or “trust” the personal certificate. The trust chain is associated with the CA only, and the very first certificate is associated with the system that requested a certificate. Because you use the chain to trust the first certificate, its full name is a trust chain. ![]() The certificates linked to the root certificate are called a chain. The very last one is the CA root certificate (because all other certificates start from it). Revocation is an action taken by a CA when a computer system becomes compromised, and, it is believed, their certificates (and private keys inside them) might’ve been released into the open.Īfter you submit your request for a certificate to a CA, they will send you a certificate followed by a series of certificates linked together (you will usually get your certificates by email and there will usually be three other certificates with an option to download them separately). OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) is a service that you can send every certificate issued by this CA to, and they will reply whether or not that certificate has been revoked. ![]() There are several CAs out there, and, if you want to use their certificates, you need to purchase their services through a contract and submit requests for certificates through their interface. Another kind is a certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA for short) – a company that issues certificates and stakes their reputation and financial well-being behind them. When an application receives a certificate, how does it know it should trust it? It can be a self-signed certificate, meaning it was signed by the application that sent it, and it’s basically asking you to trust the computer that sent it. When the receiving application sends its certificate back, it’s called two-way authentication or mutual authentication. When your application sends a certificate to identify itself to the receiving application, it is called one-way authentication or client-only authentication (because your application is the client in this example). The terms are very close but not the interchangeable. It’s called a “key store” because sometimes certificates are called keys. It is the application’s “passport”, if you will. Key stores hold certificates that an application sends across during the SSL handshake. Key stores and trust stores are files in a proprietary format. This post will be the first in a multi-part series talking about configuring various key stores and trust stores IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus and populating them with certificates.
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