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Summary

AAF Components are all Java(tm) HTTP/S based RESTful services, with the following exceptions:

• AAF GUI component is an HTTP/S HTML5 generating component.  It uses the same code base, but isn't strictly RESTful according to definition.
• AAF FS component is a FileServer, and is HTTP only (not TLS), so it can deliver publicly accessible artifacts without Authentication.

Essentials

Technologies required to run AAF

• Java(tm).  Version 8.121+

  • Oracle Java previous to Oracle Java SE 8 to version 8 Update 121 is vulnerable to "SWEET32" attack.

    1369383 - CVE-2016-2183 SSL/TLS: Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32)

• Cassandra, Version 2.1.14+
• X509 Certificates (at minimum to support HTTP/S TLS transactions (TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 are default, but can be configured).

Optional Technologies for special cases

• Build your own Certificate Authority for Bootstrapping and/or Certificate Manager component.
  • openssl
  • bash

Data Definitions

AAF Data Definitions

AAF is Data Driven, and therefore, needs to have some structure around the Initial Data so that it can function.  You will need to define:

• Your Organization:
  • Example:  Are you a company?  Do you already have a well known internet URL?
    • If so, you should set up AAF Namespaces with this in mind.  Example:
      
      for "Kumquat Industries, LTD", with internet presence "kumquats4you.com" (currently, a fictitious name), you would want all your AAF Namespaces to start with:
      
      "com.kumquats4you" 
  • The examples all use
    
    "org.osaaf"
    
    However it is recommended that you change this once you figure out your organizations' structure.
• Your AAF Root Namespace
  • This can be within your company namespace, i.e. 
    
    "com.kumquats4you.aaf"
    
    but you might consider putting it under different root structure.
  • Again, the bootstrapping examples use:
    
    "org.osaaf.aaf" 
     
• While creating these, recognize that 
  • 2nd position of the Namespace indicates company/organization
  • 3rd+ position are applications within that company/organization
    
    "com.kumquats4you.dmaap"
    
    Following this "positional" structure is required for expected Authorization behavior.

ILM (Identity Lifecycle Management)

Neither Authentication nor Authorization make any sense outside the context of Identity within your Organization.

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Initializing Default Implementation

This is recommended for learning/testing AAF.  You can modify and save off this information for your Organizational use at your discretion.

Extract Sample Configuration

On your Linux box (creating/setting permissions as required)

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jar -xvf AAF_sample_config_v1.zip

Certificate Authority

You need to identify a SAFE AND SECURE machine when working with your own Certificate Authority.  Realize that if a hacker gets the private keys of your CA or Intermediate CAs, you will be TOTALLY Compromised.

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IMPORTANT!  As you create Certificates for Identities, the Identities you use MUST be identities in your ILM.  See /opt/app/aaf/osaaf/data/identities.dat

Creating your own Certificate Authority (if desired)

1) Obtain all the Shell Scripts from the "conf/CA" directory which you can get the from the git repo.

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At this point, your Root CA information has been created.  If you want to start over, you may use "bash clean.sh"

Create your Intermediate CAs

2) You do NOT sign regular Cert requests with your Root.  You only sign with Intermediate CA.  The "intermediate.sh" will create a NEW Intermediate CA Directory and copy appropriate Shell scripts over.  Do this for as many Intermediate CAs as you need.

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creates directories in order, intermediate_1, intermediate_2, etc.

Use the Intermediate CA for creating Service/Identity Certs (can be utilized by Certman with LocalCA)

3) When creating a Manual Certificate, DO THIS from the Intermediate CA needed

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$ bash p12.sh <machine-name>

Copy initializations to Host Machine

AAF is setup so it can run 

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4) Modify "org.osaaf.props" to have 

Load Data and/or Meta-Data into Cassandra

Setting this initial Data can be done directly onto Cassadra using "cqlsh" using the following "cql" files:

• init<version>.cql (whatever is latest in the "zip" file)
• osaaf.cql
        This file contains initial Authorization Structures, see AAF Data Structures. 
              This is where you would modify your own initial Structures.

Build Source

(if not done already)

Run Java

Note: If you have a Kubernets requirement (support), it is STILL RECOMMENDED you run AAF as stand-alone Java Components on your system, and work out any modifications required BEFORE trying to run in Kubernetes.

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