keystore

I want to know how to securely store encryption key in Android? What is the best scenario to protect encryption and secrete keys? From your comments, you need to encrypt data using a local key for current Android versions and the old ones Android Keystore is designed to generate and protect your keys. But it is not available for API level below 18 and it has some limitations until API level 23. You will need a random symmetric encryption key, for example AES. The AES key is used to encrypt and decrypt you data. I'm going to summarize your options to generate and store it safely depending on

I'm new to Android development and implementing SSLSockets. After doing some digging I was able to setup a simple server/client that is working. The implementation I feel could use some work and stumped on how to load in the password to the keystore without having it in plain text. Here is some code that is on the client side. As you can see I have the password hard coded into a local var. Is there a better way to load in the keystore password so I do not have it in plain text in the code? char [] KSPASS = "password".toCharArray(); char [] KEYPASS = "password".toCharArray(); try { final

In my android app I need to execute some request to my server with OkHttp library. I have a ssl certificate that consist in four parts: AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt COMODORSAAddTrustCA.crt COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt www_mydomain_com.crt I have imported all parts in portecle 1.9, then I set my keystore password and I have exported the .bks cert. Then I have inserted this mycert.bks in res/raw folder of my app project. Now I'm trying to connect to my server by https with this code: OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); try{ client.setSslSocketFactory

I am using Sun's keytool to create a Bouncy castle keystore and import a certificate into it. The keytool does produce a keystore in the Bouncy castle format. I then attempt to import the Bouncy castle keystore into an Android program. I am able to get an instance of the "BKS" keystore but calling load on the keystore throws "java.io.IOException: Wrong version of key store". This is the code KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("BKS"); InputStream is = new FileInputStream("/mnt/sdcard/ArcGIS/mystore.bks"); keyStore.load(is, "abcdef".toCharArray()); I tried various versions of the Bouncy

I have aplication in java and cxf which connects to WebServices with client certificate. I got certificates form WebService owner certificate.p12 certificate.pem certificate.crt trusted_ca.cer root_ca.cer I have problem with straightforward converting this p12 certficate to working jks keystore requred by java. I did this: keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore certificate.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore certificate1.jks -deststoretype JKS -storepass secret keytool -import -alias root -file root_ca.cer -trustcacerts -keystore certificate1.jks -storepass secret keytool -import -alias

I want to open a HTTPS connection in a Google App Engine app using the URLFetch service. To be able to verify the SSL certificate of the server my app is talking to, I am using my own keystore file . I want to read this file in a warmup request when my app is loaded i.e. before any HTTPS requests are performed. The keystore file is part of my WAR file. TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm()); KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType()); keystore.load(ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(

I receive from a web service(made by myself) an RSA PrivateKey PKCS#8 encoded in a base 64 String. My Android app must save this key somewhere into the phone securely. From the 4.3 version of Android, it's possible saving keys using the new KeyStore API. I've found an article with code axample that shows how to generate a KeyPair with the Specification needed to store the keys. And after to recover the keys. // generate a key pair Context ctx = getContext(); Calendar notBefore = Calendar.getInstance() Calendar notAfter = Calendar.getInstance(); notAfter.add(1, Calendar.YEAR);