How to export private key from a keystore of self-signed certificate

Question

I just created a self-signed certificate on a linux box running tomcat 6.

I created the keys like this, valid for 10 years:

keytool -genkey -alias to         


        

Answer 1

Use Keystore Explorer gui - http://keystore-explorer.sourceforge.net/ - allows you to extract the private key from a .jks in various formats.