Authentification with X.509 on SAP NW Java

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

A Certificate RootAuthority delivers X.509 to our users.

We want to have authentification using those X.509 on SAP NW Java. Does SAP Java able to check certificate validity in RootAuthority Server ? Does it come out of box, or do we need additionnal library ?

Thanks for your help,

[mvoros]

Hi,

it should work out of the box. Check SAP doco for more info.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw72/helpdata/en/4a/41f432343f2ab1e10000000a42189c/content.htm

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your quick answer. I will be more precise in my question :

User certificate is compare to CA root authority certificate stored in PSE file (no direct request) ?

For Certificate Revocation, there is no way to send a request to CA ? The only way is to include ACL file on Java server ?

Thanks,

[mvoros]

Hi,

not sure if I understand your first question but the system needs to trust to certificate that is used to sign certificates for users. The certificate (chain of certificates) is stored in PSE. There is no call to CA to verify cert.

CRL file can be downloaded to application server to improve performance. In this case you have to update CRL by yourself. Java AS can also request CRL from CA. Hence the answer for you second question is no. You can have online request. More info.

Cheers

[Former Member]

thanks Martin for your answer. It helps.