SSL Demo Application

This is the accompanying project code for the blog post Secure Spring Boot Applications with TLS and HTTP/2 on blog.novatec-gmbh.de.

System Requirements

• Java 11 SDK
• Kotlin

Using this demo project

You can use this project

1. directly without changing anything here. The only thing you have to do is to import the root certificate in your web browser as new authority. The root certificate can be found in setup_ca/ca.pem. After importing this you can start the application and navigate to https://localhost:8443 in your web browser.

2. or with setting up a new private certificate authority first. Then you have to follow the explanations of the next sections.

Setting up the private CA

To setup the private certificate authority with root certificate and to create the valid server certificate please run the corresponding shell script setup_ca.sh (linux) / setup_ca.cmd (windows) in sub directory setup_ca.

This script creates the required sub directories and performs all the steps using keytool as described in the blog post.

After executing the script you will find the important files here:

• setup_ca/root-ca: Here you find the root certificate ca.pem that you have to import as new authority in your web browser
• setup_ca/server: Here you find the key store server.jks containing the root and server certificates. This has to be copied to the directory src/main/resources. The existing key store can be overwritten.

After you have completed all these steps you can start the application and navigate to https://localhost:8443 in your web browser.