Category: KeyStore Management

KeyStore is a repository of security certificates which contains Private keys and trusted certificates

How to Change JKS KeyStore Private Key Password

When your keystore is compromised,  you must change the password of it…  Also when you are using/testing IDM products that are shipped with default keystores,  It is always better to use them by changing the default passwords.  Passwords of JKS files can be easily changed by using java keytool command as  following… Use following keytool command to change the key store password […]

How to retrieve X509 Certificate as “ds:X509Certificate” Data

I have seen that most the cases, You may need to retrieve the X509 Certificate as  <ds:X509Certificate> Data.  <ds:X509Certificate>  data can be seen in SOAP messages (SAML, WS-Security) that are passed  the security information.  You can easily retrieve X509Certificate data  using java  keytool command. If you want to retrieve X509Certificate data from key store file (JKS) keytool -export -keystore pathToKeystore -rfc […]