SSL - Chronicles of Technology

OCI: Secure Load Balancer

It started as a routine wildcard certificate renewal and updating on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It usually takes about 20 minutes, but not today when the certbot offered me a private key update.

Oracle HTTP Server

Mysterious TLS in Oracle HTTP

A little "forget-me-not" from a recent Oracle HTTP server troubleshooting, but it could happen to Apache HTTPD as well. To set up a stage: a work installation of the Oracle HTTP Server, stop presenting certificates on the secured port.

SSL

Getting DN mismatch in Java? Use keytool

I wrote some Java code that connects to a secure Oracle Database listener port through JDBC. The code I used is published here. However, every time I execute this code, I receive the following exception: java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: IO Error: Mismatch with the server

WebLogic

Demo certificates in BPM 12c domain

We have found anotehr SSL hiccup in the BPM domain environment settings.

SSL

Secure Oracle HTTP Server 12c scripts

I always use custom certificates for the WebLogic servers and all the components. However, you may face connection issues with the custom NodEManager security configuration.

OSB

Getting "Hostname verification failed" in OSB 12c

Problem: When calling a service on Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 12c, I received an SSLKeyException related to hostname verification even though we do not have SSL configured. The entire error stack in osb_server1.out is: [2019-09-24T21:58:33.853-06:00] [osb_server1] [ERROR]