Securing communications

 

WAS provides several methods to secure communication between a server and a client.

 

Overview

The following topics are covered in this section:

 

Procedure

• Secure communications using Secure Sockets Layer

• Creating an SSL configuration

• Creating a keystore configuration

• Creating a self-signed certificate

• Creating a certificate authority request

• Extracting a signer certificate from a personal certificate

• Retrieving signers from a remote SSL port

• Adding a signer certificate to a keystore

• Exchanging signer certificates in a keystore

• Configure certificate expiration monitoring

• Key management for cryptographic uses

• Creating a key set configuration

• Creating a key set group configuration

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Secure communications using Secure Sockets Layer

Creating a Secure Sockets Layer configuration

Creating a keystore configuration

Creating a self-signed certificate

Creating a certificate authority request

Extracting a signer certificate from a personal certificate

Retrieving signers from a remote SSL port

Adding a signer certificate to a keystore

Exchanging signer certificates

Configure certificate expiration monitoring

Key management for cryptographic uses

Creating a key set configuration

Creating a key set group configuration