Re: UnicastSecureType and Jxta Sockets

Hi Dan -

  I suspect you will need each participating peer to login/authenticate
  followed by exchange and import of one another's certificate ... all
  as a precondition to establishing a secure 1to1 connection.

  I have done this in MyJXTA as the 1to1 chat dialog. The remote peer's
  certificate "finger print" is displayed prior to import via a dialog
  panel.

  I pulled this together from the wiki content:

    login/auth - http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Jxta/PasswordTopic

    importing certs - i don't see the wiki entry off hand

  If it will help I can highlight the code w/in MyJXTA that should be
  of help to get you started.

  hth,

- james

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[email protected] wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I am interested in using the equivalent of SSL in my application that is
> using Jxta Sockets.
> 
> I was hoping that I could have just set the type in my pipe
> advertisement to UnicastSecureType before I created my socket and then I
> would be talking over a secure socket. It is apparently not quite that
> simple.
> 
> I am getting the following exception:
> 
> java.io.IOException: No credentials established to initiate a secure
> connection
>         at net.jxta.socket.JxtaSocket.createOpenMessage(JxtaSocket.java:504)
>         at net.jxta.socket.JxtaSocket.connect(JxtaSocket.java:371)
>         at net.jxta.socket.JxtaSocket.<init>(JxtaSocket.java:291)
> 
> What is the answer here? I looked in the Jxta Programmers Guide - in the
> JxtaServerSocket example. There is a (fairly complex) method called
> login - that might be what I need - but then I see that in the example -
> that the call to it is commented out. And - what is the 'principal' and
> 'password' arguments to the login method? How do they relate to the
> userid and password in the Jxta config dialog?
> 
> I dont know if it matters - but I am using the default Jxta NetPeerGroup.
> 
> If this is all documented some where - please just point me to the docs. 
> 
> Thanks
> Dan Galewsky
> Symbiont Healthcare Systems
> 
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