How to check certificate name and alias in keystore files?

You can run from Java code.

try {

        File file = new File(keystore location);
        InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
        KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
        String password = "password";
        keystore.load(is, password.toCharArray());


        Enumeration<String> enumeration = keystore.aliases();
        while(enumeration.hasMoreElements()) {
            String alias = enumeration.nextElement();
            System.out.println("alias name: " + alias);
            Certificate certificate = keystore.getCertificate(alias);
            System.out.println(certificate.toString());

        }

    } catch (java.security.cert.CertificateException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (KeyStoreException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }finally {
        if(null != is)
            try {
                is.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    }

Certificate class holds all information about the keystore.

UPDATE- OBTAIN PRIVATE KEY

Key key = keyStore.getKey(alias, password.toCharArray());
String encodedKey = new Base64Encoder().encode(key.getEncoded());
System.out.println("key ? " + encodedKey);

@prateek Hope this is what you looking for!


In order to get all the details I had to add the -v option to romaintaz answer:

keytool -v -list -keystore <FileName>.keystore

You can run the following command to list the content of your keystore file (and alias name):

keytool -v -list -keystore .keystore

If you are looking for a specific alias, you can also specify it in the command:

keytool -list -keystore .keystore -alias foo

If the alias is not found, it will display an exception:

keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Alias does not exist