What is a certificate-based authentication?

Certificate-based authentication is the use of a Digital Certificate to identify a user, machine, or device before granting access to a resource, network, application, etc. In the case of user authentication, it is often deployed in coordination with traditional methods such as username and password.

How do I authenticate a web service?

Use message-level security when security is essential to the web service application. HTTP basic authentication uses a user name and password to authenticate a service client to a secure endpoint. The basic authentication is encoded in the HTTP request that carries the SOAP message.

How do I get an authentication certificate?

Creating a Client Certificate for Mutual Authentication

1. Create a backup copy of the server truststore file.
2. Generate the client certificate.
3. Export the generated client certificate into the file client.
4. Add the certificate to the truststore file domain-dir /config/cacerts.jks .
5. Restart the Application Server.

How do authentication certificates work?

The client sends both the user’s certificate and the evidence, the randomly generated piece of data that has been digitally signed, across the network. The server uses the certificate and the evidence to authenticate the user’s identity.

How does client certificate authentication work?

How client certificate authentication works. 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…

What is a certificate of authentication?

Certificate of authentication is a certificate of authentication of a document or copy by officer of a court of record, or like official, who has custody of the document. It is issued by such officer to the effect that the officer taking an acknowledgment or proof by affidavit was,…

What is Active Directory authentication?

Active Directory authentication allows users to log in to SGD if they have an account in an Active Directory domain. Active Directory authentication offers users a faster, more secure, and more scalable authentication mechanism than LDAP authentication.