[CASSANDRA-17661] Adding support to perform certificate based internode authentication

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: Messaging/Internode
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/557b8e9982ad0964191abde810ef5c77a536f70a

Test and Documentation Plan

Added test cases to verify the changes that are made and added documentation.

• Assignee: Jyothsna Konisa
• Reporter: Jyothsna Konisa

Authors

Jyothsna Konisa

Reviewers

Jon Meredith, Yifan Cai

• Created: 25/May/22 07:26
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:03
• Resolved: 13/Jun/22 20:45

Description

Changes are to be made in IInternodeAuthenticator interface to support certificate based authentication and to add a new pipeline in InboundConnectionInitiator should be added to perform certificate based authentication for internode communications. 

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-17708 Fix flaky testOutboundConnectionsAreRejectedWhenAuthFails
• relates to: CASSANDRA-17700 Fix TestGossipingPropertyFileSnitch.test_prefer_local_reconnect_on_listen_address