DataPower Appliances & HSMs
I’ve been in a couple of shops that have used the HSM module option of DataPower for FIPS 140-2 v2 or v3 compliance. An HSM is a Hardware Security Module. My understanding is that there is a short list of IBM customers that are using this technology. I thought collecting all the information and…
Symmetric Keys—Addendum
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a brief post about how to generate symmetric keys that can be used with DataPower. It demonstrates how to generate shared keys of various lengths using the Unix dd command. Today, someone asked how a shared key (or symmetric key) can be generated using the openssl…
Generating and Uploading a Shared Key (Symmetric Key) to DataPower Appliances
DataPower does not seem to provide a tool to generate a Shared Key that can be used with 3DES or AES algorithms. DataPower does provide a tool for generating X509 private keys, certificate requests, and self-signed certificates-in the Crypto Tools section-but we are concerned with Shared Keys…
Part 1: Creating your own SSL certificates for a custom Java client-server application
If you replace the steps for creating your own CA private key & certificate and signing your own certificate (with the CA) with having certificates signed by a legitimate Certificate Authority, you've got the basic idea behind creating/ordering certs for most situations.