Agreed. We really need a better way to separate the code from configuration.
JK
On Friday, March 9, 2012, 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<http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/downloads/download/credential-ssl-config-ee7-proposal.pdf>
>>
>>
> 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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> Jason T. Greene
> JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>