[NIFI-12001] Refactor CertificateUtils to Separate Modules

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-M1, 1.24.0
• Component/s: Core Framework, Security
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 26/Aug/23 01:47
• Updated: 30/Aug/23 19:18
• Resolved: 30/Aug/23 19:09

Description

The CertificateUtils class in nifi-security-utils contains a number of different methods for generating and parsing certificate properties. Certificate generation requires the Bouncy Castle bcpkix-jdk18on library, but other methods use standard Java components.

Certificate generation should be moved to an isolated to a dedicated module so that certificate parsing can be reused without requiring unnecessary.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7651