Securing communications

WebSphere® Application Server provides several methods to secure communication between a server and a client.

About this task

Note: WebSphere Application Server provides several methods for securing communication between a server and a client. New in this release are functions that ensure secure communication between a server and a client. These functions focus on certificate management, authentication, and ensuring trust among the application server, administrative agent, and job manager. The new functions include:
  • Creating and using a certificate authority (CA) clients to enable a CA to request, query, and revoke certificates.
  • Creating and using chained personal certificates to allow a certificate to be signed with a longer life span.
  • Creating and revoking certificate authority (CA) certificates to ensure secure communication between the CA client and the CA server.
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 certificate authority (CA) client
  • Deleting a certificate authority (CA) client
  • Viewing or Modifying a certificate authority (CA) client
  • Creating a keystore configuration for a preexisting keystore file
  • 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
  • Adding a signer certificate to the default signers keystore
  • Exchanging signer certificates in a keystore
  • Configuring certificate expiration monitoring
  • Key management for cryptographic uses
  • Creating a key set configuration
  • Creating a key set group configuration
  • [AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows]Configuring the web server plug-in for Secure Sockets Layer