I'll CC Nirmal Ranganathan who implemented the internode encryption who might 
be able to give you some advice on this.

On May 17, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Sameer Farooqui wrote:

> Thanks for the link, Jeremy.
> 
> I generated the keystore and truststore for inter-node communication using 
> the link in the YAML file:
> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#CreateKeystore
> 
> Unfortunately, the default instructions in the above link used 
> TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA. So, when I start Cassandra now, I get this 
> error:
> 
> ERROR 00:10:38,734 Exception encountered during startup.
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot support 
> TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA       with currently installed providers
>         at 
> com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.CipherSuiteList.<init>(CipherSuiteList.j      
> ava:79)
>         at 
> com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLServerSocketImpl.setEnabledCipherSuit      
> es(SSLServerSocketImpl.java:166)
>         at 
> org.apache.cassandra.security.SSLFactory.getServerSocket(SSLFactory.j      
> ava:55)
> 
> 
> The YAML file states that the cipher suite for authentication should be: 
> TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA.
> 
> This is my first time using keytool and I've searched the web to see how I 
> can change the cipher from AES_256 to AES_128, but haven't found the answer.
> 
> Anyone know how to change the cipher to AES_128?
> 
> Here are the commands I used to generate the non-working keystore and 
> truststore:
> 
> 1) keytool -genkeypair -alias jdoe -keyalg RSA -validity 7 -keystore .keystore
> 2) keytool -list -v -keystore .keystore
> 3) keytool -export -alias jdoe -keystore .keystore -rfc -file jdoe.cer
> 4) cat jdoe.cer
> 5) keytool -import -alias jdoecert -file jdoe.cer -keystore .truststore
> 6) keytool -list -v -keystore .truststore
> 
> 
> - Sameer
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> Take a look at cassandra.yaml in your 0.8 download at the very bottom.  There 
> are docs and examples there.
> e.g. 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.8.0-beta2/conf/cassandra.yaml
> 
> On May 16, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Sameer Farooqui wrote:
> 
> > I understand that 0.8.0 has configurable internode encryption 
> > (CASSANDRA-1567, 2152).
> >
> > I haven't been able to find any info on how to configure it though on this 
> > mailing list or the Datastax website.
> >
> > Can somebody point me towards how to set this up?
> >
> > - Sameer
> 
> 

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