Class ImportKey

java.lang.Object
  ImportKey

public class ImportKey
extends java.lang.Object

ImportKey.java

This class imports a key and a certificate into a keystore ($home/keystore.ImportKey). If the keystore is already present, it is simply deleted. Both the key and the certificate file must be in DER-format. The key must be encoded with PKCS#8-format. The certificate must be encoded in X.509-format.

Key format:

openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in YOUR.KEY -out YOUR.KEY.der -outform der

Format of the certificate:

openssl x509 -in YOUR.CERT -out YOUR.CERT.der -outform der

Import key and certificate:

java comu.ImportKey YOUR.KEY.der YOUR.CERT.der

Caution: the old keystore.ImportKey-file is deleted and replaced with a keystore only containing YOUR.KEY and YOUR.CERT. The keystore and the key has no password; they can be set by the keytool -keypasswd-command for setting the key password, and the keytool -storepasswd-command to set the keystore password.

The key and the certificate is stored under the alias importkey; to change this, use keytool -keyclone. Created: Fri Apr 13 18:15:07 2001 Updated: Fri Apr 19 11:03:00 2002

Constructor Summary

ImportKey()

Method Summary

static void

main(java.lang.String[] args) Takes two file names for a key and the certificate for the key, and imports those into a keystore.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ImportKey

public ImportKey()

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Takes two file names for a key and the certificate for the key, and imports those into a keystore. Optionally it takes an alias for the key.

The first argument is the filename for the key. The key should be in PKCS8-format.

The second argument is the filename for the certificate for the key.

If a third argument is given it is used as the alias. If missing, the key is imported with the alias importkey

The name of the keystore file can be controlled by setting the keystore property (java -Dkeystore=mykeystore). If no name is given, the file is named keystore.ImportKey and placed in your home directory.

Parameters:

args - [0] Name of the key file, [1] Name of the certificate file [2] Alias for the key.