What is the difference between cacerts and keystore?

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cacerts is where Java stores public certificates of root CAs. Java uses cacerts to authenticate the servers. Keystore is where Java stores the private keys of the clients so that it can share it to the server when the server requests client authentication. 29 июл. 2013 г.

What keystore type is cacerts?

On any normal Oracle Java installation (before Java 9, this is an old answer), cacerts should be a proprietary, binary, JKS key store type.

What is difference between keystore and certificate?

A keystore contains personal certificates, plus the corresponding private keys that are used to identify the owner of the certificate. For TLS, a personal certificate represents the identity of a TLS endpoint.

What is the purpose of cacerts file?

The cacerts file represents a system-wide keystore with CA certificates. System administrators can configure and manage that file using keytool, specifying jks as the keystore type. The cacerts keystore file ships with several root CA certificates. The initial password of the cacerts keystore file is changeit .

What's the difference between keystore and TrustStore?

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.

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