Below I have included code that takes a Thumbprint of a certificate as an argument and then loads the appropriate cert from the Windows certificate store.
This was done because now I would like to use the found cert to make API calls to an API that requires this certificate- if the certificate is not included in the request the API will reject me as unauthorized.
I have previously done this in C# and it was quite simple as I was able to just create a clientHandler that identified the protocol, callback, and certificate that allowed for creation of a usable HttpClient. Java is significantly more complicated and is giving me issues since it appears I must work with the keymanager(and possibly trustStore and SSLContext). In other words I am having a hard time understanding how to use these objects to send my certificate to the API with my request.
I realize I may not be able to simply build the client with the cert to get the successful connection. But how can I use the x509certificate that I have in memory to successfully send requests to the API.
I am not looking for a solution that will 100% work for my case, I would just like to see a clean example of how to send an API request with the certificate(in whichever way the libraries require) in Java.
public static X509Certificate LoadCert(String inThumbprint) {
X509Certificate ReturnCert = null;
try{
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("Windows-MY");
keyStore.load(null, null); // Load keystore
String currentAlias;
X509Certificate foundCert;
String calculatedThumbprint;
for (Enumeration<String> oEnum = keyStore.aliases(); oEnum.hasMoreElements();) {
currentAlias = oEnum.nextElement(); System.out.println(currentAlias);
foundCert = (X509Certificate) keyStore.getCertificate(currentAlias);
calculatedThumbprint = getThumbprint(foundCert); System.out.println(calculatedThumbprint);
if (calculatedThumbprint.equals(inThumbprint)) {
ReturnCert = foundCert;
}
}
} catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return ReturnCert;
}
private static String getThumbprint(X509Certificate cert)
throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, CertificateEncodingException {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] der = cert.getEncoded();
md.update(der);
byte[] digest = md.digest();
String digestHex = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(digest);
return digestHex.toLowerCase();
}
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still being a noob in cryptography I stumble upon simple things every day. And today is just one of those days.
I want to validate smime messages in java with the bouncy castle library, and I think I almost figured it out, but the problem at this moment is the building of the PKIXparameters object.
Let's say, I have an end-entity x509certificate with the following structure:
root certificate
+->intermediate certificate
+->end-entity certificate
In order to validate message I need to build a chain of trust first, but I cannot figure out how to extract a root and intermediate certificates from the end-entity.
I tried to use end-entity as root but it didn't work:
InputStream isCert = GetFISCertificate();
List list = new ArrayList();
X509Certificate rootCert = (X509Certificate) certificateFactory.generateCertificate(isCert);
list.add(rootCert);
CollectionCertStoreParameters params = new CollectionCertStoreParameters(list);
CertStore store = CertStore.getInstance("Collection", params, BC);
//create cert path
List certChain = new ArrayList();
certChain.add(rootCert);
CertPath certPath = certificateFactory.generateCertPath(certChain);
Set trust = Collections.singleton(new TrustAnchor(rootCert, null));
//validation
CertPathValidator certPathValidator = CertPathValidator.getInstance("PKIX", BC);
PKIXParameters pKIXParameters = new PKIXParameters(trust);
pKIXParameters.addCertStore(store);
pKIXParameters.setDate(new Date());
try {
CertPathValidatorResult result = certPathValidator.validate(certPath, pKIXParameters);
System.out.println("certificate path validated");
} catch (CertPathValidatorException e) {
System.out.println("validation failed on certificate number " + e.getIndex() + ", details: " + e.getMessage());
}
Got this exception:
validation failed on certificate number -1, details: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
And btw, can I just use only the end-entity certificate to validate messages, as if it were the self-signed certificate?
I've used BouncyCastle 1.56 for this test.
One way to get the issuer's certificate from the end entity is to look for the Authority Information Access extension.
This extension may be present (it's not mandatory) and may contain the URL to get the issuer's certificate (issuer is the certificate "above" the current one, so the end entity's issuer is the intermediate, and the intermediate's issuer is the root).
You can get this extension value with BouncyCastle:
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.AccessDescription;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.AuthorityInformationAccess;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.Extension;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.GeneralName;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.X509ObjectIdentifiers;
import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;
import org.bouncycastle.x509.extension.X509ExtensionUtil;
X509Certificate cert = // end entity certificate
// get Authority Information Access extension (will be null if extension is not present)
byte[] extVal = cert.getExtensionValue(Extension.authorityInfoAccess.getId());
AuthorityInformationAccess aia = AuthorityInformationAccess.getInstance(X509ExtensionUtil.fromExtensionValue(extVal));
// check if there is a URL to issuer's certificate
AccessDescription[] descriptions = aia.getAccessDescriptions();
for (AccessDescription ad : descriptions) {
// check if it's a URL to issuer's certificate
if (ad.getAccessMethod().equals(X509ObjectIdentifiers.id_ad_caIssuers)) {
GeneralName location = ad.getAccessLocation();
if (location.getTagNo() == GeneralName.uniformResourceIdentifier) {
String issuerUrl = location.getName().toString();
// http URL to issuer (test in your browser to see if it's a valid certificate)
// you can use java.net.URL.openStream() to create a InputStream and create
// the certificate with your CertificateFactory
URL url = new URL(issuerUrl);
X509Certificate issuer = (X509Certificate) certificateFactory.generateCertificate(url.openStream());
}
}
}
So you can use this code with the end entity certificate to get the intermediate. Then you use it again with the intermediate to get the root.
Then you add the root to your TrustAnchor and the validation should work.
Note: But as I said, this extension is not mandatory and may not be present. In this case, getExtensionValue will return null, and the only alternative that I know is to search for the certificates in google and download them (those certificate chains are usually public and not hard to find)
btw, if we have out certificate installed in windows, everything is much simpler:
KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("Windows-MY");
ks.load(null, null);
String alias = "your alias";
ArrayList<X509Certificate> certsChain = new ArrayList<>();
if (ks.isCertificateEntry(alias)) {
Certificate[] chain = ks.getCertificateChain(alias);
System.out.println("Chain length: " + chain.length);
for(Certificate c : chain) certsChain.add((X509Certificate)c);
}
Collections.reverse(certsChain);
certsChain.forEach(MainClass::printDBG);
boom, and the whole certificates chain is ready
Is there any way to return a file to client with .p12 extension (base64 encoded string, that is later decoded on the client side and saved with .p12 extension) without storing it to PKCS12 keystore? I have code for creating root certificate, client certificate and setting keyentry to PKCS12 keystore bellow, but I don't want to have .p12 file on the file system, just to generate it and return it to client. Thanks!
Simplified code of creating root certificate:
public static void createRootCertificate(PublicKey pubKey, PrivateKey privKey) {
certGen.setSerialNumber(...);
certGen.setIssuerDN(...);
certGen.setNotBefore(...);
certGen.setNotAfter(...);
certGen.setSubjectDN(...);
certGen.setPublicKey(pubKey);
certGen.setSignatureAlgorithm("SHA1WithRSA");
// add extensions, key identifier, etc.
X509Certificate cert = certGen.generateX509Certificate(privKey);
cert.checkValidity(new Date());
cert.verify(pubKey);
}
The root certificate and its private key is saved to the trusted store after creating.
Than, in the service for generating client certificates, I read root certificate from trusted store and generate client ones:
public static Certificate createClientCertificate(PublicKey pubKey) {
PrivateKey rootPrivateKey = ... //read key from trusted store
X509Certificate rootCertificate = ... //read certificate from trusted store
certGen.setSerialNumber(...);
certGen.setIssuerDN(...); // rootCertificate.getIssuerDN ...
certGen.setNotBefore(...);
certGen.setNotAfter(...);
certGen.setSubjectDN(...);
certGen.setPublicKey(pubKey);
certGen.setSignatureAlgorithm("SHA1WithRSA");
// add extensions, issuer key, etc.
X509Certificate cert = certGen.generateX509Certificate(rootPrivateKey);
cert.checkValidity(new Date());
cert.verify(rootCertificate.getPublicKey(););
return cert;
}
Main class look like this:
public static void main(String[] args) {
// assume I have all needed keys generated
createRootCertificate(rootPubKey, rootPrivKey);
X509Certificate clientCertificate = createClientCertificate(client1PubKey);
KeyStore store = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS12", "BC");
store.load(null, null);
store.setKeyEntry("Client1_Key", client1PrivKey, passwd, new Certificate[]{clientCertificate});
FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream("client1.p12");
store.store(fOut, passwd);
}
After the code above, I'm reading client1.p12 and I'm creating Base64 encoded response of that file. When I decode response on my client and save with .p12 extension everything works, I can import it to browser. Can this be done without storing it to file?
I have tried with:
store.setKeyEntry("Client1_Key", client1PrivKey, passwd, new Certificate[]{clientCertificate});
and after that:
Key key = store.getKey("Client1_Key", passwd);
but when encode key variable, send to client and than decode it and save with .p12 extension, browser say invalid or corrupted file.
Thanks in advance!
Simply use a ByteArrayOutputStream instead of FileOutputStream to store the p12:
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
store.store(baos, passwd);
byte[] p12Bytes = baos.toByteArray();
String p12Base64 = new String(Base64.encode(p12Bytes));
I am trying to do signature validation on SAML2 Response which is obtained from an identity provider using OpenSAML. I am trying to read the response from the localfile system.
Here is my code:
DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap();
BasicParserPool ppMgr = new BasicParserPool();
ppMgr.setNamespaceAware(true);
//Read file from the filesystem
File file1=new File("F:/Softwares/Assertion.xml");
InputStream inCommonSaml=new FileInputStream(file1);
// Parse file
Document inCommonSamlDoc = ppMgr.parse(inCommonSaml);
Element metadataRoot = inCommonSamlDoc.getDocumentElement();
UnmarshallerFactory unmarshallerFactory=configuration.getUnmarshallerFactory();
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = unmarshallerFactory.getUnmarshaller(metadataRoot);
Response inCommonSamlRes = (Response) unmarshaller.unmarshall(metadataRoot);
//Get certificate
SignatureValidator signatureValidator = new SignatureValidator(cert);
Signature signature=inCommonSamlRes.getSignature();
signatureValidator.validate(signature);
try {
BasicX509Credential credential = new BasicX509Credential();
File file2=new File("F:/Softwares/publicKey.crt");
InputStream samlCertificate=new FileInputStream(file2);
CertificateFactory certificateFactory = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
//
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
java.security.cert.X509Certificate certificate = (java.security.cert.X509Certificate) certificateFactory.generateCertificate(samlCertificate);
//
X509EncodedKeySpec publicKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec((certificate).getPublicKey().getEncoded());
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
PublicKey key = keyFactory.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);
credential.setPublicKey(key);
Object obj = (credential).getPublicKey();
if (obj instanceof RSAPublicKey) {
BigInteger modulus = ((RSAPublicKey) obj).getModulus();
BigInteger exponent = ((RSAPublicKey) obj).getPublicExponent();
System.out.println("modulus");
System.out.println (org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64String(modulus.toByteArray()));
System.out.println("public exponent:");
System.out.println (org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64String(exponent.toByteArray()));
}
// System.out.println ("public key is: //n//r"+ credential.getPublicKey());
return credential;
} catch (Exception e) {
throw e; //Throws a 'Signature did not validate against the credential's key' exception
}
Note: I use the same certificate(publicKey.crt) to sign the assertion also.
I am getting the following error:
signature cryptographic validation not successful.
Please let me know where am I wrong? What does the error mean? Does it say that public and private keys are the same?
Thanks,
aswini J
I think you need to get .jks file from IdP (Identity Provider) server. Also when you're getting SAMLResponse from for your POST from IDP, this SAMLResponse should be containing Signature (FYI - will be an encoded string, you can decode and read using Open SAML library, available on Maven Central Repository).
Once you get signature from , you can validate that using OpenSAML
sigValidator.validate(response.getSignature());
This method will give you meesage if everything is OK. The message for reference "Signature validated with key from supplied credentia"
You can follow this link: http://sureshatt.blogspot.in/2012/11/how-to-read-saml-20-response-with.html to get Signature and
(IMP): Your IDP (Identity Provider) should be send (may be via HTTP POST), so that you can get from which can have NameID i.e, ClinetId
This answer is for incoming people getting this error and searching on Google.
In my case, I am facing the same error :"error: signature cryptographic validation not successful", with a slightly different case. I am validating with SimpleSamlPHP as SP and CAS as IDP.
The problem was that my SP uses one (self-signed) cert for SP validation to IDP, and another cert for SP in Apache to make allow SSL (so that I can have https)
Using two separate cert might works fine for a lot of process like login and metadata validation, but with prcess like logout the above error will happen.
The solution is to use only one cert for both process, and my error is gone.
OK, this is another of those "I have no real idea where to start" questions, so hopefully the answer is simple. However, I don't really know what to search for, and my attempts so far haven't turned up much of use.
I want to read a private key from a (currently on-disk) file. Ultimately the key will reside in a database, but this will be good enough for the moment and that difference should have no real bearing on parsing the key material. I have been able to create a Credential instance that holds the public part of the key (confirmed by debugger), but I can't seem to figure out how to read the private part. The key pair was generated as:
openssl genrsa 512 > d:\host.key
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 -key d:\host.key > d:\host.cert
(Yes, I know that 512 bit RSA keys were broken long ago. However, for trying to get the API to work, I see no reason to exhaust the system entropy supply needlessly.)
The code thus far is:
import org.opensaml.xml.security.credential.Credential;
import org.opensaml.xml.security.x509.BasicX509Credential;
private Credential getSigningCredential()
throws java.security.cert.CertificateException, IOException {
BasicX509Credential credential = new BasicX509Credential();
credential.setUsageType(UsageType.SIGNING);
// read public key
InputStream inStream = new FileInputStream("d:\\host.cert");
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
X509Certificate cert = (X509Certificate)cf.generateCertificate(inStream);
inStream.close();
credential.setEntityCertificate(cert);
// TODO: read private key
// done.
return credential;
}
But how do I read the file host.key into the private key portion of credential, so I can use the generated Credential instance to sign data?
BasicX509Credential is not part from standard Java; I suppose you are talking about org.opensaml.xml.security.x509.BasicX509Credential from OpenSAML.
You want a PrivateKey which you will set with credential.setPrivateKey(). To get a PrivateKey, you must first convert the private key into a format that Java can read, namely PKCS#8:
openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -outform DER < D:\host.key > D:\host.pk8
Then, from Java:
RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("d:\\host.pk8", "r");
byte[] buf = new byte[(int)raf.length()];
raf.readFully(buf);
raf.close();
PKCS8EncodedKeySpec kspec = new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(buf);
KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
PrivateKey privKey = kf.generatePrivate(kspec);
and voilà! you have your PrivateKey.
By default, openssl writes key in its own format (for RSA keys, PKCS#8 happens to be a wrapper around that format), and it encodes them in PEM, which Base64 with a header and a footer. Both characteristics are unsupported by plain Java, hence the conversion to PKCS#8. The -nocrypt option is because PKCS#8 supports optional password-based encryption of private key.
Warning: you really really want to use a longer RSA key. 512 bits are weak; a 512-bit RSA key was broken in 1999 with a few hundred computers. In 2011, with 12 years of technological advances, one should assume that a 512-bit RSA key can be broken by almost anybody. Therefore, use 1024-bit RSA keys at least (preferably, 2048-bit; the computational overhead when using the key is not that bad, you will still be able to perform hundred of signatures per second).
This question is related to SAML and is also relevant for someone who wants to retrieve a private key for signing an XMLObject. The answer above works great and it also possible to retrieve a private key from a keystore as well:
Properties sigProperties = new Properties();
sigProperties.put("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.provider","org.apache.ws.security.components.crypto.Merlin");
sigProperties.put("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.type","jks");
sigProperties.put("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.password","keypass");
sigProperties.put("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.alias","keyalias");
sigProperties.put("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.file","keystore.jks");
Crypto issuerCrypto = CryptoFactory.getInstance(sigProperties);
String issuerKeyName = (String) sigProperties.get("org.apache.ws.security.crypto.merlin.keystore.alias");
//See http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/xref/org/apache/ws/security/saml/ext/AssertionWrapper.html 'signAssertion' method
// prepare to sign the SAML token
CryptoType cryptoType = new CryptoType(CryptoType.TYPE.ALIAS);
cryptoType.setAlias(issuerKeyName);
X509Certificate[] issuerCerts = issuerCrypto.getX509Certificates(cryptoType);
if (issuerCerts == null) {
throw new WSSecurityException(
"No issuer certs were found to sign the SAML Assertion using issuer name: "
+ issuerKeyName);
}
String password = ADSUnitTestUtils.getPrivateKeyPasswordFromAlias(issuerKeyName);
PrivateKey privateKey = null;
try {
privateKey = issuerCrypto.getPrivateKey(issuerKeyName, password);
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new WSSecurityException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
}
BasicX509Credential signingCredential = new BasicX509Credential();
signingCredential.setEntityCertificate(issuerCerts[0]);
signingCredential.setPrivateKey(privateKey);
signature.setSigningCredential(signingCredential);
This is more code than the original query requested, but it looks they are trying to get at a BasicX509Credential.
Thanks,
Yogesh
Need some help with crypto routines in Java.
Given a PKCS#7 signature, I want to verify all certificates it contains against a trusted store. I assume that all certificates contained in signature are in the correct order to form a valid certificate path (or chain, whatever), so that
topmost (#0) is a signing certificate;
next one (#1) is an intermediate certificate, used to sign #0;
next one (#2) is another intermediate certificate, used to sign #1;
and so on.
The last certificate (#N) is signed by CA.
That's what I've managed to hack so far:
// Exception handling skipped for readability
//byte[] signature = ...
pkcs7 = new PKCS7(signature); // `sun.security.pkcs.PKCS7;`
// *** Checking some PKCS#7 parameters here
X509Certificate prevCert = null; // Previous certificate we've found
X509Certificate[] certs = pkcs7.getCertificates(); // `java.security.cert.X509Certificate`
for (int i = 0; i < certs.length; i++) {
// *** Checking certificate validity period here
if (cert != null) {
// Verify previous certificate in chain against this one
prevCert.verify(certs[i].getPublicKey());
}
prevCert = certs[i];
}
//String keyStorePath = ...
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS"); // `java.security.KeyStore`
keyStore.load(new FileInputStream(keyStorePath), null);
// Get trusted VeriSign class 1 certificate
Certificate caCert = keyStore.getCertificate("verisignclass1ca"); // `java.security.cert.Certificate`
// Verify last certificate against trusted certificate
cert.verify(caCert.getPublicKey());
So the question is -- how can this be done using standard Java classes like CertPath and friends? I have a strong feeling I'm re-inventing a bicycle. Or, if someone has an example with BouncyCastle library, that would also be fine.
Bonus question: how to verify a certificate against a trusted store so that root certificate is selected automatically?
Found the solution myself. So, here's how one can extract and validate a certificate chain against the trusted store (exception handling skipped for readability):
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
// Get ContentInfo
//byte[] signature = ... // PKCS#7 signature bytes
InputStream signatureIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(signature);
DERObject obj = new ASN1InputStream(signatureIn).readObject();
ContentInfo contentInfo = ContentInfo.getInstance(obj);
// Extract certificates
SignedData signedData = SignedData.getInstance(contentInfo.getContent());
Enumeration certificates = signedData.getCertificates().getObjects();
// Build certificate path
List certList = new ArrayList();
while (certificates.hasMoreElements()) {
DERObject certObj = (DERObject) certificates.nextElement();
InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(certObj.getDEREncoded());
certList.add(cf.generateCertificate(in));
}
CertPath certPath = cf.generateCertPath(certList);
// Load key store
//String keyStorePath = ...
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
keyStore.load(new FileInputStream(keyStorePath), null);
// Set validation parameters
PKIXParameters params = new PKIXParameters(keyStore);
params.setRevocationEnabled(false); // to avoid exception on empty CRL
// Validate certificate path
CertPathValidator validator = CertPathValidator.getInstance("PKIX");
CertPathValidatorResult result = validator.validate(certPath, params);
validate() will throw an exception if validation fails.
Docs: ASN1Set, ContentInfo, SignedData. All other exotic names and related docs can be found in java.security.cert.
No SUN-dependencies here, only BouncyCastle provider library is needed.
This question (and especially an answer) may help too.
You want CertificateFactory. The last example in the javadocs do exactly what you want.