I *completely* agree with Jason on this point and should be something under serious consideration.
Jeff
On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> On 3/8/12 6:09 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>> I've uploaded another proposal from our security team. Please review
>> and give us your feedback.
>>
>> http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/downloads/download/credential-ssl-config-ee7-proposal.pdf
>>
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> Frankly the whole idea of sticking private keys and password databases in deployments seems like a major hazard. Developers are used to copying these around everywhere. I could easily see someone forgetting they have sensitive information in here. People also tend to use short and bad passwords in keystores which makes bruteforcing a PKCS12 file not that difficult.
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