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Root certificatewiki
The role of root certificate as in the chain of trust.
A Symantec Root Certificate is self signed x.509 certificate that includes the signature from Symantec as the Certificate Authority which vouches for correctness of the data contained within the certificate.
Root CA's are implicitly trusted. They are pre-installed into web browsers and many web servers.
In certificate hierarchy, a subordinate Intermediate CA certificate will be issued by the Root CA to issue end-entity SSL certificate. This creates a chain of trust that begins at the Root CA, through the Intermediate CA and ending with the SSL certificate.
Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK8C:\Softwares\JDK\jdk1.8.0_121\jre\lib\security
we need to extract the zipped file into a directory of our choice – which contains two jar files: local_policy.jar, US_export_policy.jar
Finally, we need to look for the {JAVA_HOME}/lib/security folder and replace the existing policy files with the ones that we’ve extracted here.
Java KeyStores (
*.jks, *.keystore, *.jceks, *.ks) PKCS #12 Keystores (*.pfx, *.p12) Bouncy Castle Keystores (*.bks, *.uber)
Baeldung.com Preparing Certificate And Private Key Baeldung.cer, Baeldung.p12 (password = “password”)
Symmetric Key encryption: The private keys and corresponding certificates are stored in files ending with ".p12". These are PKCS12 files with password
passwd.
KeyStore Explorer
github KeyStore Explorer is an open-source GUI replacement for the Java command-line utilities keytool and jarsigner.