REST Client uses clientcertificate to authenticate to Spring Boot Server

This repository basically forks all the ground work that was done in https://github.com/jonashackt/spring-boot-rest-clientcertificate. This is a basic example, where the client certificate secured server is a Spring Boot Application and the client is just a Testcase that uses Spring´s RestTemplate which is configured to use the client certificate.

In contrast the present project focusses on the configuration of more than one client certificates and how to access REST endpoints from multiple servers that are secured by different client certificates with Spring´s RestTemplate.

Therefore we use several Spring Boot based microservices that provide different client certificate secured REST endpoint and a separate microservice that accesses these services:

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                                   = server-alice =
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=            = ------------------> ================
= client-bob =                     
=            = ------------------> ================
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                                   =  server-tom  =
                                   =              =
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For a general approach on how to generate private keys and certificates and create Java Keystores, have a look into https://github.com/jonashackt/spring-boot-rest-clientcertificate#generate-the-usual-key-and-crt---and-import-them-into-needed-keystore-jks-files

server-alice keys and client certificate, truststore & keystore (see /server-alice/src/main/resources)

1. Private Key: aliceprivate.key

openssl genrsa -des3 -out aliceprivate.key 128

• passphrase alicepassword

2. Certificate Signing Request (CSR): alice.csr

openssl req -new -key aliceprivate.key -out alice.csr

Common Name: server-alice, which will later be a DNS alias inside the Docker network

3. self-signed Certificate: alice.crt

openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in alice.csr -signkey aliceprivate.key -out alice.crt

4. Java Truststore Keystore, that inherits the generated self-signed Certificate: alice-truststore.jks

keytool -import -file alice.crt -alias alicesCA -keystore alice-truststore.jks

the same password alicepassword

5. Java Keystore, that inherits Public and Private Keys (keypair): alice-keystore.jks

openssl pkcs12 -export -in alice.crt -inkey aliceprivate.key -certfile alice.crt -name "alicecert" -out alice-keystore.p12

the same password alicepassword

server-tom keys and client certificate, truststore & keystore (see /server-tom/src/main/resources)

1. Private Key: tomprivate.key

openssl genrsa -des3 -out tomprivate.key 1024

• passphrase tompassword

2. Certificate Signing Request (CSR): tom.csr

openssl req -new -key tomprivate.key -out tom.csr

Common Name: server-tom, which will later be a DNS alias inside the Docker network

3. self-signed Certificate: tom.crt

openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in tom.csr -signkey tomprivate.key -out tom.crt

4. Java Truststore Keystore, that inherits the generated self-signed Certificate: tom-truststore.jks

keytool -import -file tom.crt -alias tomsCA -keystore tom-truststore.jks

the same password tompassword

5. Java Keystore, that inherits Public and Private Keys (keypair): tom-keystore.p12

openssl pkcs12 -export -in tom.crt -inkey tomprivate.key -certfile tom.crt -name "tomcert" -out tom-keystore.p12

the same password tompassword

client-bob truststore & keystore (see /server-alice/src/main/resources)

1. Java Truststore Keystore, that inherits the generated self-signed Certificate: client-truststore.jks

keytool -import -file alice.crt -alias alicesCA -keystore client-truststore.jks
keytool -import -file tom.crt -alias tomsCA -keystore client-truststore.jks

password bobpassword

In KeyStore Explorer this should look like this:

2. Java Keystore, that inherits Public and Private Keys (keypair): client-keystore.p12

Openssl CLI sadly doesn´t support importing multiple certificate files... But we can concatenate them:

cat alice.crt tom.crt > allcerts.pem
cat aliceprivate.key tomprivate.key > allkeys.pem

Then we can do:

openssl pkcs12 -export -in allcerts.pem -inkey allkeys.pem -certfile allcerts.pem -name "alicecert" -out client-keystore.p12

the same password bobpassword

If you want to check everything worked fine in KeyStoreExplorer, you have to convert the .p12 file into a .jks, otherwise the tool will bring up a nasty exception:

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore client-keystore.p12 -srcstoretype pkcs12 -destkeystore client-keystore.jks -deststoretype JKS

The result should look like this: