Certificates: PFX to JKS (Java Key Store) Conversion

I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday trying to figure out how to convert a PFX file to JKS.

I tried several approaches including this one from BEA, but I could not seem to make them work.

It was already very late when I saw an interesting blog post from CB1.

And guess what? His solution worked!

The outlined steps use a special utility from Jetty’s libraries.

java -classpath lib/jetty-6.1.8.jar org.mortbay.jetty.security.PKCS12Import MyCert.pfx MyCert.jks

Thanks to the Jetty developers for providing this utility.

And thanks to the original blog author for the tip.

Jetty rules!

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Tags: Certificates·Java Key Store·Jetty·JKS·PFX

Emilio // Nov 27, 2009 at 1:26 am

i am trying to view the links but they don’t work, can you help me bringme the tutorials to know how convert pfx to jks. thanks for your help.
paul // Nov 27, 2009 at 1:52 am

Hi Emilio,

Sorry for the links, I just saw that the Oracle nameserver for the BEA site is currently failing while the blog I referred to is also currently down.

You just need to download a copy of Jetty: http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6.1.22/jetty-6.1.22.zip, look for the jar file in the archive and run the command I mentioned in my post.

Let me know how it works!

Thanks.

-Paul
Emilio // Nov 27, 2009 at 5:14 pm

i just want to say thank’s for your help, everything works perfectly!!!
paul // Nov 29, 2009 at 11:31 am

You’re most welcome!
Nick // Jan 15, 2010 at 3:35 pm

Great, works also for me. Thanks

I confirm that is necessary java >= 1.5

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