What is keystore in MQ?

What is the keystore used for?

Keystore is used to store private key and identity certificates that a specific program should present to both parties (server or client) for verification. Truststore is used to store certificates from Certified Authorities (CA) that verify the certificate presented by the server in SSL connection.

What is in a keystore?

Keystore file that contains your own private keys, and public key certificates you received from someone else.

What is a keystore API?

Keystores and truststores define repositories of security certificates used for TLS encryption. The APIs that you use to create a truststore are the same as used to create a keystore. The only difference is that you pass the cert file as a PEM file instead of a JAR file.

What is keystore manager?

The Keystore Manager tool is a repository of security certificates, either authorization certificates or public key certificates, plus corresponding private keys. The gool of this tool is provide applications a secure way to handle user keys and certificates without the need to expose the password.