Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Cannot recover key

Question

I am supplied with a jks keystore named ABCC_client.store. When I import this keystore to cacerts and try connecting it says No such Algorithm error. PFA the stacktrace

    Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class:   com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.DefaultSSLContextImpl)
    at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1245)
    at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:220)
    at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:147)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(SSLContext.java:125)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(SSLContext.java:68)
    at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(SSLSocketFactory.java:102)
    at org.apache.axis.components.net.JSSESocketFactory.initFactory(JSSESocketFactory.java:61)
    at org.apache.axis.components.net.JSSESocketFactory.create(JSSESocketFactory.java:79)
    ... 32 more
Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Cannot recover key
    at sun.security.provider.KeyProtector.recover(KeyProtector.java:311)
    at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineGetKey(JavaKeyStore.java:121)
    at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$JKS.engineGetKey(JavaKeyStore.java:38)
    at java.security.KeyStore.getKey(KeyStore.java:763)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SunX509KeyManagerImpl.<init>(SunX509KeyManagerImpl.java:113)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.KeyManagerFactoryImpl$SunX509.engineInit(KeyManagerFactoryImpl.java:48)
    at javax.net.ssl.KeyManagerFactory.init(KeyManagerFactory.java:239)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.DefaultSSLContextImpl.getDefaultKeyManager(DefaultSSLContextImpl.java:170)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.DefaultSSLContextImpl.<init>(DefaultSSLContextImpl.java:40)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
    at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1221)
    ... 39 more

But if I use this keystore independently i.e without adding it to cacerts it works.

Some googling led to me to http://joewlarson.com/blog/2009/03/25/java-ssl-use-the-same-password-for-keystore-and-key/ which says that password might me different for the key and the keystore.

Answer 1

If using Tomcat 6 and earlier, make sure the keystore password and the key password are same. If using Tomcat 7 and later, make sure they are the same or that the key password is specified in the server.xml file.