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Spring Security - Third Edition

By : Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH
Book Image

Spring Security - Third Edition

By: Mick Knutson, Peter Mularien, ROBERT WILLIAM WINCH

Overview of this book

Knowing that experienced hackers are itching to test your skills makes security one of the most difficult and high-pressured concerns of creating an application. The complexity of properly securing an application is compounded when you must also integrate this factor with existing code, new technologies, and other frameworks. Use this book to easily secure your Java application with the tried and trusted Spring Security framework, a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. The book starts by integrating a variety of authentication mechanisms. It then demonstrates how to properly restrict access to your application. It also covers tips on integrating with some of the more popular web frameworks. An example of how Spring Security defends against session fixation, moves into concurrency control, and how you can utilize session management for administrative functions is also included. It concludes with advanced security scenarios for RESTful webservices and microservices, detailing the issues surrounding stateless authentication, and demonstrates a concise, step-by-step approach to solving those issues. And, by the end of the book, readers can rest assured that integrating version 4.2 of Spring Security will be a seamless endeavor from start to finish.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

How does client certificate authentication work?

Client certificate authentication requires a request for information from the server and a response from the browser to negotiate a trusted authentication relationship between the client (that is, a user's browser) and the server application. This trusted relationship is built through the use of the exchange of trusted and verifiable credentials, known as certificates.

Unlike much of what we have seen up to this point, with client certificate authentication, the servlet container or application server itself is typically responsible for negotiating the trust relationship between the browser and server by requesting a certificate, evaluating it, and accepting it as valid.

Client certificate authentication is also known as mutual authentication and is part of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and its successor, Transport...