Configuring mTLS and CN Validation in Spring Integration
Mutual TLS (mTLS) strengthens security by forcing both client and server to present valid X.509 certificates during the TLS handshake. This guide shows how to generate server-side and client-side Java KeyStores (JKS) make the two parties trust each other wire everything into Spring Integration, and reject connections whose certificate CN is not the expected value 1. Generate keys and certificates with keytool 1 . 1 Create the server keystore keytool -genkeypair \ -alias server \ -keyalg RSA \ -keysize 2048 \ -validity 365 \ -keystore server.jks \ -storepass passwordLocal \ -dname "CN=server.example.com,OU=Dev,O=Example,L=City,S=State,C=US" 1 . 2 Create the client keystore keytool -genkeypair \ -alias client \ -keyalg RSA \ -keysize 2048 \ -validity 365 \ -keystore client.jks \ -storepass passwordLocal \ -dname "CN=client.example.com,OU=Dev,O=Example,L=City,S=State,C=US" 1 . 3 Export and exchange the certificates Export the server certificate and import it into the client trust store: ...