Java Tools Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes - Version 5.32, by Dr. Herong Yang

Java Tools Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟'keytool' - Public Key Certificate Tool

∟'keystore' - Public Key Certificate Storage File

"keystore" - A database used by JDK "keytool" command and KeyStore class to store your own private keys, and public key certificates you received from someone else. "keystore" supports the following features:

• Two types of entries: key entries for private keys and certificate entries for public key certificates.
• A key entry contains the private key and a certificate chain of the corresponding public key.
• Every entry has a unique alias name.
• Key entries are protected by separate passwords.
• "keystore" may have different implementations from different security package providers. The default implementation from Sun is called JKS (Java KeyStore).

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Java Tools Terminology

 Installing Java 8 on Windows

 'javac' - The Java Program Compiler

 'java' - The Java Program Launcher

 'jdb' - The Java Debugger

 'jconsole' - Java Monitoring and Management Console

 'jstat' - JVM Statistics Monitoring Tool

 JVM Troubleshooting Tools

 jvisualvm (Java VisualVM) - JVM Visual Tool

 'jar' - The JAR File Tool

 'javap' - The Java Class File Disassembler

►'keytool' - Public Key Certificate Tool

 Certificates and Certificate Chains

►'keystore' - Public Key Certificate Storage File

 JDK 1.5 'keytool' - keystore File Management Commands

 JDK 1.6 'keytool' - keystore File Management Commands

 Generating Key Pairs and Self-Signed Certificates

 Exporting and Import Certificates

 Cloning Certificates with New Identities

 'native2ascii' - Native-to-ASCII Encoding Converter

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version

'keystore' - Public Key Certificate Storage File - Updated in 2017, by Dr. Herong Yang