Using RAD 8.5 with WAS 8.5 runtime, I am getting an exception on my console:
The keystore located at "C:\IBM\Websphere85\jdk\jre\lib\security\cacerts" failed to load due to the following error: DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big..
After searching for the error I got this link which suggests to edit the file and remove blank lines/extra characters.
How do I edit the file? I am on windows environment and the file seems to be base64 encoded.
The cacerts file is a collection of trusted certificate authority (CA) certificates. Sun Microsystems™ includes a cacerts file with its SSL support in the Java™ Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) tool kit and JDK 1.4. x. It contains certificate references for well-known Certificate authorities, such as VeriSign™.
As far as the original question, you can use the keytool
command to view and edit a keystore like cacerts
.
To view all keys in the keystore, use keytool -list
:
$ keytool -list -keystore ${keystore.file}
where ${keystore.file}
is the path to the cacerts
file, in your case C:\IBM\Websphere85\jdk\jre\lib\security\cacerts
.
To remove a specific key, use keytool -delete
:
$ keytool -delete -alias ${cert.alias} -keystore ${keystore.file}
where ${cert.alias}
is an existing key alias from the above -list
command. *
To add a new key that was already generated elsewhere, use keytool -importcert
:
$ keytool -importcert -alias ${cert.alias} -keystore ${keystore.file} -file ${cer.file}
where ${cer.file}
is the path to an existing certificate or certificate chain.
Note that with each of these commands, you will be prompted for the keystore password which you can instead specify with the -storepass
option. For example:
$ keytool -delete -noprompt -alias ${cert.alias} -keystore ${keystore.file} -storepass ${keystore.pass}
* The ${cert.alias}
is the left-most value in the lines outputted from keytool -list
.
For example, if this is the ouput from keytool -list
:
$ keytool -list -keystore ./cacerts
Enter keystore password:
Keystore type: jks
Keystore provider: SUN
Your keystore contains 2 entries
verisignclass1ca, Jun 29, 1998, trustedCertEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): 51:86:E8:1F:BC:B1:C3:71:B5:18:10:DB:5F:DC:F6:20
verisignserverca, Jun 29, 1998, trustedCertEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): 74:7B:82:03:43:F0:00:9E:6B:B3:EC:47:BF:85:A5:93
then verisignclass1ca
and verisignserverca
are aliases you can specify to delete.
Here's a way to actually solve this problem without the need to view or edit the file.
The default keyStore type is JKS and the WSKeyStore class assumes it to be a PKCS12 file which throws the above error. So we need to convert the cacerts file to .p12 format.
Using the keytool utility from command line I executed:
C:\IBM\WebSphere85\AppServer\java\bin>keytool -importkeystore ^
-srckeystore C:\IBM\WebSphere85\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\cacerts ^
-destkeystore C:\IBM\WebSphere85\AppServer\java\jre\lib\security\cacerts.p12 ^
-srcstoretype JKS -deststoretype PKCS12 -srcstorepass changeit -deststorepass changeit -noprompt
which gave me a cacerts.p12
file which could be easily read by the above class.
References:
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