"keytool" Importing CA's Own Certificate

This section provides a tutorial example on how to import CA's certificate generated by 'OpenSSL' into a 'keystore' file using 'keytool'

When Maria receives my CA self-signed public key certificate file, she needs to imported it into her keystore file with the "keytool -importcert" command as shown below:

herong> keytool -importcert -alias herong_crt -keypass keypass 
-file herong.crt -keystore maria.jks -storepass jkspass

Owner: EMAILADDRESS=herongyang.com, CN=Herong Yang, 
OU=HY Unit, O=HY Company, L=HY City, ST=HY State, C=HY
Issuer: EMAILADDRESS=herongyang.com, CN=Herong Yang, 
OU=HY Unit, O=HY Company, L=HY City, ST=HY State, C=HY
Serial number: 0
Valid from: Sun Apr 1:42:10 EDT 2007 
until: Wed Mar 29 23:42:10 EDT 2017
Certificate fingerprints:
         MD5:  2D:95:8D:5F:0F:4A:9B:CC:A2:69:61:F6:22:AE...
         SHA1: 1F:BB:C7:78:97:AC:C8:BF:7B:A4:88:DF:B5:62...
         Signature algorithm name: MD5withRSA
         Version: 3

Extensions:

#1: ObjectId: 2.5.29.14 Criticality=false
SubjectKeyIdentifier [
KeyIdentifier [
...

[EMAILADDRESS=herongyang.com, CN=Herong Yang, OU=HY Unit, 
O=HY Company, L=HY City, ST=HY State, C=HY]
SerialNumber: [    00]
]

Trust this certificate? [no]:  yes
Certificate was added to keystore

Notes on what Maria did:

Want to see if the certificate was imported correctly or not? Try this "keytool -list" command:

herong> keytool -list -keystore maria.jks -storepass jkspass

Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN

Your keystore contains 2 entries

maria_key, Apr 1, 2007, PrivateKeyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): 54:5A:E8:77:30:82:B4:EB:C...
herong_crt, Apr 1, 2007, trustedCertEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): C1:6C:FE:38:F7:0F:71:23:3...

As we can see, my CA certificate was imported ok and stored as a "trustedCertEntry". So certificates generated by "OpenSSL" is compatible with "keytool" certificate format.

If Maria made a mistake when import my certificate, she could use this command to delete my certificate from her keystore file:

herong> keytool -delete -alias herong_crt -keystore maria.jks 
-storepass jkspass

Now Maria is ready to import her own public key certificate signed by me as described in the next section.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Cryptography Terminology

 Cryptography Basic Concepts

 Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

 Introduction to DES Algorithm

 DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs

 DES Algorithm Java Implementation

 DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE

 DES Encryption Operation Modes

 DES in Stream Cipher Modes

 PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt

 Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher

 Secret Key Generation and Management

 Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption

 Introduction of RSA Algorithm

 RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class

 Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)

 Java Default Implementation of DSA

 Private key and Public Key Pair Generation

 PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

 Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption

 MD5 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 SHA1 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 OpenSSL Introduction and Installation

 OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys

 OpenSSL Managing Certificates

 OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR

 OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path

 "keytool" and "keystore" from JDK

"OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"

 "OpenSSL" Acting as a CA (Certificate Authority)

 "OpenSSL" Generating CA's Private Key

 "OpenSSL" Self-Signing CA's Public Key

 "keytool" Generating Maria's Private Key

 "keytool" Generating Maria's CSR

 "OpenSSL" Signing Maria's CSR

 "OpenSSL" Managing Serial Numbers when Signing CSR

"keytool" Importing CA's Own Certificate

 ""keytool" Importing Maria's Certificate Signed by CA

 Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files

 Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats

 Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"

 Using Certificates in IE

 Using Certificates in Google Chrome

 Using Certificates in Firefox

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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