wrong version keystore when doing https call

Question

Hello fellow android coders.

I'm trying to do a https secure call from my android code. The call goes fine on the emulator but on the actual Samsung Galaxy device I get a SSL error.

I used crazy bobs method for handling the cetificate. Here is crazy bobs link: http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/02/android-trusting-ssl-certificates.html.

Problem is I get an error: "wrong version of keystore" inside the custom SSLSocketFactory object.

Any suggestions on what to do to fix this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Did you create your keystore with the Bouncy Castle format? All these 3 parameters are mandatory when creating the keystore with keytool (and especially the keystore type must be BKS):

  -storetype BKS
  -provider org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider
  -providerpath /path/to/bouncycastle.jar

Android uses version 1.46 of bouncycastle, make sure you use this version when creating your keystore Version 1.46 is found here