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Securing AMQ7 Brokers with SSL (part 2)

December 28, 2017
Mary Cochran
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    Previously I did a post on Securing AMQ7 Routers with SSL. This post will expand upon that and explain how to secure JBoss AMQ7 Brokers with SSL and how to connect the routers and brokers with SSL as well.

    SSL Between Brokers

    If you have not already gathered your keystore and truststore files from the previous post, you will need to do so following these directions. If you already generated files to use for securing your routers those same files can be used.

     openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout key.pem -x509 -days 65000 -out cert.pem
     openssl x509 -text -noout -in cert.pem
     openssl pkcs12 -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem -export -out truststore.p12
     openssl pkcs12 -in truststore.p12 -noout -info

    You should end up with the following files:

    • key.pem
    • cert.pem
    • truststore.p12

    Now that you have the appropriate files, you will need to edit your broker.xml files to use the certificates. Both acceptors and connectors need to be edited. In this example the files are in my broker/etc folder so I do not need a file path. A path is necessary if you place the files elsewhere.

    <acceptors>
       <acceptor name="artemis">tcp://localhost:61616?sslEnabled=true;keyStorePath=truststore.p12;keyStorePassword=password;enabledProtocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2;trustStorePath=truststore.p12;trustStorePassword=password</acceptor>
    </acceptors>
    <connectors>
       <connector name="my-connector">tcp://localhost:61616?sslEnabled=true;keyStorePath=truststore.p12;keyStorePassword=password;enabledProtocols=TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2;trustStorePath=truststore.p12;trustStorePassword=password</connector>
    </connectors>
    

    If you start up 2 brokers now with the sslEnabled you can see the traffic between them is secure.

    SSL Between Brokers and Routers

    In the previous post we setup an sslProfile in the router configuration.  This will be used again here.  If you have not previously added it, do so now.

    sslProfile {
       name: router-ssl
       certFile: /absolute/path/to/cert.pem
       keyFile:/absolute/path/to/key.pem
       password: password
    }
    

    Next you will adjust the connector for the broker in the router configuration to use this ssl profile.

    connector {
       name: broker1
       host: localhost
       port: 61616
       role: route-container
       saslMechanisms: ANONYMOUS
       sslProfile: router-ssl
       verifyHostName: no
    }
    

    After this step everything going in and out of the brokers is secure with SSL.  Happy testing!


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    Last updated: December 27, 2017

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