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Simple LDAP authentication using Java

I am using LDAP authentication using Java . I am using the following code but its throwing error
Exception in thread "main" javax.naming.AuthenticationException: [LDAP: error code 49 - 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09044E, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 52e, v2580
Java Code i am using
package test;
import java.util.*;
import javax.naming.*;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
public class LoginLDAP {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Map<String,String> params = createParams(args);
// firstname.lastname#mydomain.com
// String domainName = params.get("domain"); // mydomain.com or empty
String url="ldap://ip here:389";
String principalName="username here";
String domainName ="domain name";
if (domainName==null || "".equals(domainName)) {
int delim = principalName.indexOf('#');
domainName = principalName.substring(delim+1);
}
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, url);
props.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, principalName);
props.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "password here");
if (url.toUpperCase().startsWith("LDAPS://")) {
props.put(Context.SECURITY_PROTOCOL, "ssl");
props.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");
props.put("java.naming.ldap.factory.socket", "test.DummySSLSocketFactory");
}
InitialDirContext context = new InitialDirContext(props);
try {
SearchControls ctrls = new SearchControls();
ctrls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
NamingEnumeration<SearchResult> results = context.search(toDC(domainName),"(& (userPrincipalName="+principalName+")(objectClass=user))", ctrls);
if(!results.hasMore())
throw new AuthenticationException("Principal name not found");
SearchResult result = results.next();
System.out.println("distinguisedName: " + result.getNameInNamespace() ); // CN=Firstname Lastname,OU=Mycity,DC=mydomain,DC=com
Attribute memberOf = result.getAttributes().get("memberOf");
if(memberOf!=null) {
for(int idx=0; idx<memberOf.size(); idx++) {
System.out.println("memberOf: " + memberOf.get(idx).toString() ); // CN=Mygroup,CN=Users,DC=mydomain,DC=com
//Attribute att = context.getAttributes(memberOf.get(idx).toString(), new String[]{"CN"}).get("CN");
//System.out.println( att.get().toString() ); // CN part of groupname
}
}
} finally {
try { context.close(); } catch(Exception ex) { }
}
}
/**
* Create "DC=sub,DC=mydomain,DC=com" string
* #param domainName sub.mydomain.com
* #return
*/
private static String toDC(String domainName) {
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
for (String token : domainName.split("\\.")) {
if(token.length()==0) continue;
if(buf.length()>0) buf.append(",");
buf.append("DC=").append(token);
}
return buf.toString();
}
private static Map<String,String> createParams(String[] args) {
Map<String,String> params = new HashMap<String,String>();
for(String str : args) {
int delim = str.indexOf('=');
if (delim>0) params.put(str.substring(0, delim).trim(), str.substring(delim+1).trim());
else if (delim==0) params.put("", str.substring(1).trim());
else params.put(str, null);
}
return params;
}
package test;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.*;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
public class DummySSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
private SSLSocketFactory socketFactory;
public DummySSLSocketFactory() {
try {
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
ctx.init(null, new TrustManager[]{ new DummyTrustManager()}, new SecureRandom());
socketFactory = ctx.getSocketFactory();
} catch ( Exception ex ){ throw new IllegalArgumentException(ex); }
}
public static SocketFactory getDefault() { return new DummySSLSocketFactory(); }
#Override public String[] getDefaultCipherSuites() { return socketFactory.getDefaultCipherSuites(); }
#Override public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites() { return socketFactory.getSupportedCipherSuites(); }
#Override public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String string, int i, boolean bln) throws IOException {
return socketFactory.createSocket(socket, string, i, bln);
}
#Override public Socket createSocket(String string, int i) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
return socketFactory.createSocket(string, i);
}
#Override public Socket createSocket(String string, int i, InetAddress ia, int i1) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
return socketFactory.createSocket(string, i, ia, i1);
}
#Override public Socket createSocket(InetAddress ia, int i) throws IOException {
return socketFactory.createSocket(ia, i);
}
#Override public Socket createSocket(InetAddress ia, int i, InetAddress ia1, int i1) throws IOException {
return socketFactory.createSocket(ia, i, ia1, i1);
}
}
class DummyTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
#Override public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String str) {
// do nothing
}
#Override public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String str) {
/*System.out.println("checkServerTrusted for authType: " + str); // RSA
for(int idx=0; idx<xcs.length; idx++) {
X509Certificate cert = xcs[idx];
System.out.println("X500Principal: " + cert.getSubjectX500Principal().getName());
}*/
}
#Override public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return new java.security.cert.X509Certificate[0];
}
}

data 52e - Returns when username is valid but password/credential is invalid.
I am guessing that you are passing the password to Microsoft Active Directory in plain text which usually will not work.
We have a "updateUserPassword" method in our "JNDI Examples" repository that should help.

Read SubjectAlternativeNames from Certificate using Bouncy-Castle Library

I am using bouncy-castle library to make a TLS-Handshake with an Web-Server and grab the public certificate. Below is my code
private org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.Certificate[] certificateList;
public static void main(String... args) {
new BCMain().testBCTLS();
}
private void testBCTLS() {
try {
Socket s = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName(WEB_SERVER), WEB_SERVER_PORT);
//TlsProtocolHandler tlsHandler = new TlsProtocolHandler(s.getInputStream(), s.getOutputStream());
TlsClientProtocol protocol = new TlsClientProtocol(s.getInputStream(), s.getOutputStream(), new SecureRandom());
TlsClient client = new DefaultTlsClient() {
private Boolean connectionStatus = Boolean.FALSE;
#Override
public TlsAuthentication getAuthentication() throws IOException {
return new ServerOnlyTlsAuthentication() {
public void notifyServerCertificate(Certificate serverCertificate)
throws IOException {
certificateList = serverCertificate.getCertificateList();
}
};
}
#Override
public Hashtable getClientExtensions() throws IOException {
Hashtable clientExtensions = super.getClientExtensions();
clientExtensions = TlsExtensionsUtils.ensureExtensionsInitialised(clientExtensions);
Vector<ServerName> serverNames = new Vector(1);
serverNames.add(new ServerName(NameType.host_name, SNI_HOST_NAME));
TlsExtensionsUtils.addServerNameExtension(clientExtensions, new ServerNameList(serverNames));
return clientExtensions;
}
public Boolean getConnectionStatus() {
return connectionStatus;
}
};
protocol.connect(client);
if (this.certificateList!=null) {
org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.Certificate certificate = certificateList[0];
System.out.println(certificate.getSubject());
}
InputStream is = protocol.getInputStream();
System.out.println(is);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I wanted to extract Subject Alternative Names from that Public certificate
The X509Certificate of JDK has method to extract SubjectAlternativeNames .. But I want to get the same from the bouncy-castle certificate.
Can some one help on this please ?

I was able to extract Subject-Alternative-Names using X509CertificateHolder and JcaX509CertificateConverter classes from BouncyCastle Library .. In continuation to the above code
import org.bouncycastle.cert.X509CertificateHolder;
import org.bouncycastle.cert.jcajce.JcaX509CertificateConverter;
if (this.certificateList!=null) {
org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.Certificate certificate = certificateList[0];
X509CertificateHolder holder = new X509CertificateHolder(certificate.getEncoded());
X509Certificate x509Certificate = new JcaX509CertificateConverter().getCertificate(holder);
Collection<List<?>> sanCollections = x509Certificate.getSubjectAlternativeNames();
}

Converting java class to groovy: Groovy:No expression for the array constructor call

For testing purposes I would like to try and use the below java class. But I need it to be ported to groovy.
The java class:
public class HttpsTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
private static TrustManager[] trustManagers;
private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers = new X509Certificate[]{};
#Override
public void checkClientTrusted(
X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s)
throws java.security.cert.CertificateException {
}
#Override
public void checkServerTrusted(
X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s)
throws java.security.cert.CertificateException {
}
public boolean isClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain) {
return true;
}
public boolean isServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain) {
return true;
}
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return _AcceptedIssuers;
}
public static void allowAllSSL() {
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext context = null;
if (trustManagers == null) {
trustManagers = new TrustManager[]{new HttpsTrustManager()};
}
try {
context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
context.init(null, trustManagers, new SecureRandom());
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException | KeyManagementException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(context != null ? context.getSocketFactory() : null);
}
}
When I just move that to a .groovy file I get the following errors on this line:
private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers = new X509Certificate[]{};
Error:
Groovy:No expression for the array constructor call at line:
And this line:
if (trustManagers == null) {
trustManagers = new TrustManager[]{new HttpsTrustManager()};
}
Error:
Groovy:No expression for the array constructor call at line:
This first line I have ported like this:
private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers = [ new X509Certificate(){} ] as X509Certificate[]
Not 100% sure its correct though. But I still have an error on the second line:
trustManagers = new TrustManager[]{new HttpsTrustManager()};
Any ideas?

We cannot use Java array initialization syntax in Groovy.
So
private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers = [ new X509Certificate(){} ] as X509Certificate[]
is correct
and you also need to change
trustManagers = new TrustManager[]{new HttpsTrustManager()};
to
trustManagers = [new HttpsTrustManager()] as TrustManager[];

TLS 1.2 + Java 1.6 + BouncyCastle

For supporting HTTPS connections through a Java 1.6 API to remote hosts using TLS 1.2, we have developed a customized TLS SocketConnection factory based on Bouncy Castle Libraries (v. 1.53)
It's very easy to use, just:
String httpsURL = xxxxxxxxxx
URL myurl = new URL(httpsURL);
HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection )myurl.openConnection();
con.setSSLSocketFactory(new TSLSocketConnectionFactory());
InputStream ins = con.getInputStream();
During testing, I connect different web and remote hosts exposed into SSLabs Tests
90% of the time this works fine! But there are some cases in which we get an annoying error: "Internal TLS error, this could be an attack" . It has been checked that there is no attack. That's a common error based on the treatment of internal BouncyCastle exceptions. I'm trying to find a common pattern to those remote host that fails with little luck.
Updated:
Updating some code for extra information, we get this:
org.bouncycastle.crypto.tls.TlsFatalAlert: illegal_parameter(47)
at org.bouncycastle.crypto.tls.AbstractTlsClient.checkForUnexpectedServerExtension(AbstractTlsClient.java:56)
at org.bouncycastle.crypto.tls.AbstractTlsClient.processServerExtensions(AbstractTlsClient.java:207)
at org.bouncycastle.crypto.tls.TlsClientProtocol.receiveServerHelloMessage(TlsClientProtocol.java:773)
The extension type i get is this:
ExtensionType:11
ExtensionData:
Acording to ExtensionType class, "ec_point_formats". This causes "UnexpectedServerExtension" --> The "UnexpectedServerExtension" causes a --> TlsFatalAlert: illegal_parameter , and at last this a "Internal TLS error, this could be an attack"
Any advise to log or trace this strange TLS Errors....???? As i say, this code works 90%...but with some remote host i get this errof
The trick consists in overriding startHandShake to use Bouncy's TLSClientProtocol:
Override ClientExtensions to include "host" ExtensionType. Just ExtensionType.server_name ( maybe any more Extension to include?)
Create a TlsAuthentication to include remoteCerts on Socket's
peerCertificate .Also optionally check if remote certs are in
default keystore (cacerts,etc..)
I share the code of TLSSocketConnectionFactory:
public class TLSSocketConnectionFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Adding Custom BouncyCastleProvider
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
static {
if (Security.getProvider(BouncyCastleProvider.PROVIDER_NAME) == null) {
Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//SECURE RANDOM
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private SecureRandom _secureRandom = new SecureRandom();
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Adding Custom BouncyCastleProvider
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#Override
public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, final String host, int port, boolean arg3)
throws IOException {
if (socket == null) {
socket = new Socket();
}
if (!socket.isConnected()) {
socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(host, port));
}
final TlsClientProtocol tlsClientProtocol = new TlsClientProtocol(socket.getInputStream(), socket.getOutputStream(), _secureRandom);
return _createSSLSocket(host, tlsClientProtocol);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// SOCKET FACTORY METHODS
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#Override
public String[] getDefaultCipherSuites() {
return null;
}
#Override
public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites(){
return null;
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket( String host,
int port) throws IOException,UnknownHostException{
return null;
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket( InetAddress host,
int port) throws IOException {
return null;
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket( String host,
int port,
InetAddress localHost,
int localPort) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
return null;
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket( InetAddress address,
int port,
InetAddress localAddress,
int localPort) throws IOException{
return null;
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//SOCKET CREATION
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private SSLSocket _createSSLSocket(final String host , final TlsClientProtocol tlsClientProtocol) {
return new SSLSocket() {
private java.security.cert.Certificate[] peertCerts;
#Override
public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
return tlsClientProtocol.getInputStream();
}
#Override
public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
return tlsClientProtocol.getOutputStream();
}
#Override
public synchronized void close() throws IOException {
Log.to("util").info("\\\n::::::Close Socket");
tlsClientProtocol.close();
}
#Override
public void addHandshakeCompletedListener(HandshakeCompletedListener arg0) {
}
#Override
public boolean getEnableSessionCreation() {
return false;
}
#Override
public String[] getEnabledCipherSuites() {
return null;
}
#Override
public String[] getEnabledProtocols() {
return null;
}
#Override
public boolean getNeedClientAuth(){
return false;
}
#Override
public SSLSession getSession() {
return new SSLSession() {
#Override
public int getApplicationBufferSize() {
return 0;
}
#Override
public String getCipherSuite() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public long getCreationTime() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public byte[] getId() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public long getLastAccessedTime() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public java.security.cert.Certificate[] getLocalCertificates() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public Principal getLocalPrincipal() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public int getPacketBufferSize() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getPeerCertificateChain()
throws SSLPeerUnverifiedException {
return null;
}
#Override
public java.security.cert.Certificate[] getPeerCertificates()throws SSLPeerUnverifiedException {
return peertCerts;
}
#Override
public String getPeerHost() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public int getPeerPort() {
return 0;
}
#Override
public Principal getPeerPrincipal() throws SSLPeerUnverifiedException {
return null;
//throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public String getProtocol() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public SSLSessionContext getSessionContext() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public Object getValue(String arg0) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public String[] getValueNames() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public void invalidate() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public boolean isValid() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public void putValue(String arg0, Object arg1) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public void removeValue(String arg0) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
};
}
#Override
public String[] getSupportedProtocols() {
return null;
}
#Override
public boolean getUseClientMode() {
return false;
}
#Override
public boolean getWantClientAuth() {
return false;
}
#Override
public void removeHandshakeCompletedListener(HandshakeCompletedListener arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setEnableSessionCreation(boolean arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setEnabledCipherSuites(String[] arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setEnabledProtocols(String[] arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setNeedClientAuth(boolean arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setUseClientMode(boolean arg0) {
}
#Override
public void setWantClientAuth(boolean arg0) {
}
#Override
public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites() {
return null;
}
#Override
public void startHandshake() throws IOException {
Log.to("util").info("TSLSocketConnectionFactory:startHandshake()");
tlsClientProtocol.connect(new DefaultTlsClient() {
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
#Override
public Hashtable<Integer, byte[]> getClientExtensions() throws IOException {
Hashtable<Integer, byte[]> clientExtensions = super.getClientExtensions();
if (clientExtensions == null) {
clientExtensions = new Hashtable<Integer, byte[]>();
}
//Add host_name
byte[] host_name = host.getBytes();
final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
final DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(baos);
dos.writeShort(host_name.length + 3);
dos.writeByte(0); //
dos.writeShort(host_name.length);
dos.write(host_name);
dos.close();
clientExtensions.put(ExtensionType.server_name, baos.toByteArray());
return clientExtensions;
}
#Override
public TlsAuthentication getAuthentication()
throws IOException {
return new TlsAuthentication() {
#Override
public void notifyServerCertificate(Certificate serverCertificate) throws IOException {
try {
KeyStore ks = _loadKeyStore();
Log.to("util").info(">>>>>>>> KeyStore : "+ks.size());
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
List<java.security.cert.Certificate> certs = new LinkedList<java.security.cert.Certificate>();
boolean trustedCertificate = false;
for ( org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.Certificate c : serverCertificate.getCertificateList()) {
java.security.cert.Certificate cert = cf.generateCertificate(new ByteArrayInputStream(c.getEncoded()));
certs.add(cert);
String alias = ks.getCertificateAlias(cert);
if(alias != null) {
Log.to("util").info(">>> Trusted cert\n" + c.getSubject().toString());
if (cert instanceof java.security.cert.X509Certificate) {
try {
( (java.security.cert.X509Certificate) cert).checkValidity();
trustedCertificate = true;
Log.to("util").info("Certificate is active for current date\n"+cert);
} catch(CertificateExpiredException cee) {
R01FLog.to("r01f.util").info("Certificate is expired...");
}
}
} else {
Log.to("util").info(">>> Unknown cert " + c.getSubject().toString());
Log.to("util").fine(""+cert);
}
}
if (!trustedCertificate) {
throw new CertificateException("Unknown cert " + serverCertificate);
}
peertCerts = certs.toArray(new java.security.cert.Certificate[0]);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
throw new IOException(ex);
}
}
#Override
public TlsCredentials getClientCredentials(CertificateRequest arg0)
throws IOException {
return null;
}
/**
* Private method to load keyStore with system or default properties.
* #return
* #throws Exception
*/
private KeyStore _loadKeyStore() throws Exception {
FileInputStream trustStoreFis = null;
try {
String sysTrustStore = null;
File trustStoreFile = null;
KeyStore localKeyStore = null;
sysTrustStore = System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore");
String javaHome;
if (!"NONE".equals(sysTrustStore)) {
if (sysTrustStore != null) {
trustStoreFile = new File(sysTrustStore);
trustStoreFis = _getFileInputStream(trustStoreFile);
} else {
javaHome = System.getProperty("java.home");
trustStoreFile = new File(javaHome + File.separator + "lib" + File.separator + "security" + File.separator + "jssecacerts");
if ((trustStoreFis = _getFileInputStream(trustStoreFile)) == null) {
trustStoreFile = new File(javaHome + File.separator + "lib" + File.separator + "security" + File.separator + "cacerts");
trustStoreFis = _getFileInputStream(trustStoreFile);
}
}
if (trustStoreFis != null) {
sysTrustStore = trustStoreFile.getPath();
} else {
sysTrustStore = "No File Available, using empty keystore.";
}
}
String trustStoreType = System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType")!=null?System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType"):KeyStore.getDefaultType();
String trustStoreProvider = System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreProvider")!=null?System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreProvider"):"";
if (trustStoreType.length() != 0) {
if (trustStoreProvider.length() == 0) {
localKeyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(trustStoreType);
} else {
localKeyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(trustStoreType, trustStoreProvider);
}
char[] keyStorePass = null;
String str5 = System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword")!=null?System.getProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword"):"";
if (str5.length() != 0) {
keyStorePass = str5.toCharArray();
}
localKeyStore.load(trustStoreFis, (char[]) keyStorePass);
if (keyStorePass != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < keyStorePass.length; i++) {
keyStorePass[i] = 0;
}
}
}
return (KeyStore)localKeyStore;
} finally {
if (trustStoreFis != null) {
trustStoreFis.close();
}
}
}
private FileInputStream _getFileInputStream(File paramFile) throws Exception {
if (paramFile.exists()) {
return new FileInputStream(paramFile);
}
return null;
}
};
}
});
}
};//Socket
}
}

If you look at RFC 4492 5.2, you'll see that the server CAN send the "ec_point_formats" extension, but is only supposed to do so "when negotiating an ECC cipher suite". If you want TLSClient to just ignore the extra extension instead of raising an exception, I suggest overriding TlsClient.allowUnexpectedServerExtension(...) to allow ec_point_formats in the same way the default implementation allows elliptic_curves:
protected boolean allowUnexpectedServerExtension(Integer extensionType, byte[] extensionData)
throws IOException
{
switch (extensionType.intValue())
{
case ExtensionType.ec_point_formats:
/*
* Exception added based on field reports that some servers send Supported
* Point Format Extension even when not negotiating an ECC cipher suite.
* If present, we still require that it is a valid ECPointFormatList.
*/
TlsECCUtils.readSupportedPointFormatsExtension(extensionData);
return true;
default:
return super.allowUnexpectedServerExtension(extensionType, extensionData);
}
}
If this is a widespread problem, we might consider adding this case to the default implementation.
For logging, there are the (TLSPeer) methods notifyAlertRaised and notifyAlertReceived that you can override on your TLSClient implementation.

i am posting this so maybe some people might find this helpful - i was also getting invalid_parameter(47) exception from my BC client code.
this error started to happen when we upgraded BC from version 1.62 (bcprov- and bctls-jdk15on-162 JARs) to 1.71 (bcprov-, bctls-, bcpkix-, bcutil-jdk15to18-171).
my stacktrace was different from the above problem, though:
org.bouncycastle.tls.TlsFatalAlert: illegal_parameter(47)
at org.bouncycastle.tls.TlsClientProtocol.processServerHello(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.tls.TlsClientProtocol.handleHandshakeMessage(Unknown Source)
...
I had some trouble figuring out how to debug the internal BC TLS code. Тhe provided JARs are compiled without the debug info - I had to download the source files from Maven Central and build from them, creating a new project in Netbeans with existing sources - the only Java version it can be built with is 8, but the end result could be referenced by my Java 6 client code.
Having compiled bctls with debug info, and referencing it from my client, I could actually land in the code that was throwing the exception:
protected void processServerHello(ServerHello serverHello)
throws IOException
{
...
if (sessionServerExtensions != null && !sessionServerExtensions.isEmpty())
{
{
/*
* RFC 7366 3. If a server receives an encrypt-then-MAC request extension from a client
* and then selects a stream or Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD)
* ciphersuite, it MUST NOT send an encrypt-then-MAC response extension back to the
* client.
*/
boolean serverSentEncryptThenMAC = TlsExtensionsUtils.hasEncryptThenMACExtension(sessionServerExtensions);
if (serverSentEncryptThenMAC && !TlsUtils.isBlockCipherSuite(securityParameters.getCipherSuite()))
{
throw new TlsFatalAlert(AlertDescription.illegal_parameter);
}
securityParameters.encryptThenMAC = serverSentEncryptThenMAC;
}
...
}
I don't really know what encrypt-then-MAC and MAC-then-encrypt is, and I didn't want to get deep into their meaning. After some searching, I figured out that possibly I had to limit the list of the cipher suites used for the communication - because possibly some cipher suite that is chosen by default forces the server into some condition where it behaves differently from the RFC specification - and yes, this at least worked:
TrustManagerFactory tmf = ...
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2", BouncyCastleJsseProvider.PROVIDER_NAME);
sc.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), new SecureRandom());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory ret = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sc,
new String[] { "TLSv1.2" },
new String[] { "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256",
"TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384", "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256" },
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier());
// the created SSLConnectionSocketFactory is then used to create socketFactoryRegistry
// which is then passed to constructor of Apache HttpComponents' PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager
// which is used to create a new instance of Apache HttpClient
Other useful stuff that I learned is
there are sites, e.g. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest that analyze the available protocols and cipher suites that a server supports.
the list of the cipher suites above is not exactly arbitrary - I took it from this stackoverflow q&a.

When I try to convert a string with certificate, Exception is raised

I have an applet which signes document, and sends a document, sign, and certificate to the server side. On the server side portlet receives these 3 files, all files are stored in base64 format, but when I try to get certificate it raises exception
java.security.cert.CertificateException: Could not parse certificate: java.io.IOException: Empty input
at sun.security.provider.X509Factory.engineGenerateCertificate(X509Factory.java:104)
applet side code:
public static byte[] certificate;
public static String getCertificateString() {
String str = "";
byte[] result = null;
result = Base64.encode(certificate);
for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
str += (char) (result[i]);
}
return str;
}
//initialization of certificate from the store
Certificate cert = store.getCertificate(aliasKey);
certificate = cert.toString().getBytes();
after this I send certificate to the portlet, where need to verify the sign. But the certificate conversion is failed.
portlet code:
String certificate = request.getParameter("cert");
byte[] cert_array = Base64.decode(certificate.getBytes());
try {
cert = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X509").generateCertificate(new ByteArrayInputStream(cert_array));
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
And at this point, in the try block, Exception is raised

Do NOT EVER trust all certificates. That is very dangerous. If you do that you may as well not use HTTPS and just use HTTP

Ok, #test1604 you try something like this, is implements X509TrustManager class, ok here we go:
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
public class YouNameClass implements X509TrustManager {...
public YouNameClass() {
super();
}
}
And add this method,
private static void trustAllHttpsCertificates() throws Exception {
// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains:
javax.net.ssl.TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new javax.net.ssl.TrustManager[1];
javax.net.ssl.TrustManager tm = new YouNameClass();
trustAllCerts[0] = tm;
javax.net.ssl.SSLContext sc = javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, null);
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
}
and methods override:
#Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
return;
}
#Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
return;
}
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
That's it. :)