Wednesday, July 14, 2010

java.io.IOException: Cannot recover key (Errors & Solutions #5)

Error

java.io.IOException: Cannot recover key


Solution

The KeyStore password and The Key password should be the same :)
Changing both passwords using keytool

Change KeyStore password
keytool -storepasswd -new newpassword -keystore KeyStore.jks
Change Alias key Password
keytool -keypasswd -alias MyKeyAlias -new newpassword -keystore KeyStore.jks

Note: supply old password for both keystore and alias when asked for


Posted by Karim Ouda at 4:37 PM

28 comments:

  1. MuskokaNovember 30, 2012 at 10:17 PM

    Thanks Karim!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    Thank you very much! I had loose 2h hours trying to understand this issue.

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  3. AnonymousApril 1, 2013 at 8:52 PM

    Very helpful, solved my problem very quickly. Thanks!

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  4. UnknownApril 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    You sir have just made my life SO much easier. Keys in future will be exported using the same password as my keystore. Thank you very much.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM

    the first command pass fine, but please how can i know "MyKeyAlias" ?

    thank's

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  6. UnknownOctober 3, 2013 at 11:58 AM

    It saves my lot of time. Thank you very much

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  7. AnonymousOctober 4, 2013 at 3:23 PM

    Thanks man. You saved me. Warm regards from Mexico and Colombia.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM

    Thanks Man

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  9. AnonymousApril 23, 2014 at 8:20 AM

    Thanks very much!

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  10. DamienMay 21, 2014 at 7:22 PM

    Thanks! I appreciate your posting this!

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  11. AnonymousMay 28, 2014 at 1:43 PM

    Great Help !

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  12. AnonymousJuly 23, 2014 at 4:57 AM

    Thanks!!!

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  13. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2014 at 2:46 AM

    I'm creating a lab exercise for HP SiteScope to run via TLS/SSL and your article just let me fix a show-stopper. THANK YOU!!!

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  14. AnonymousMarch 18, 2015 at 4:07 PM

    Hello, I seem to have the same problem. All the details are correct but Android studio cannot recover my keystore. Maybe the keystore file was corrupted. But when I open it it commandline I can see everything is okay. I am afraid I wont be able to update my app on google play.

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  15. BalarajuMay 5, 2015 at 11:58 AM

    Hello, I have created the keystore file .jks format when trying to configure the .jks file format on my tomcat server.xml file i got this error. can please help out me and below i have mention the error details


    SEVERE: Failed to load keystore type JKS with path C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\mykeystore.jks due to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\mykeystore.jks (The system cannot find the file specified)
    java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\mykeystore.jks (The system cannot find the file specified)


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  16. UnknownOctober 7, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    Thank you. Much appreciated.

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  17. AnonymousNovember 5, 2015 at 10:35 AM

    Time saver! 10x.

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  18. yubaNovember 16, 2015 at 3:00 AM

    Thank you , very very much appeciated, + infinity :)

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  19. Jan S.January 12, 2016 at 11:34 PM

    Thank you so much! Worked perfectly.

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  20. UnknownMarch 6, 2016 at 5:23 PM

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  21. UnknownMarch 6, 2016 at 5:24 PM

    Hello ,i have got an error ---> keytool error: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Cannot recover key

    Help me!

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  22. UnknownJune 2, 2016 at 3:04 PM

    Genius... Working like a charm... Thanks Sir

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  23. AnonymousAugust 2, 2016 at 9:22 PM

    Thank you!

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  24. UnknownAugust 31, 2016 at 5:52 PM

    Thank you, the post helped a lot.

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  25. Chandra vasamsettyDecember 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM

    It worked from me as well.But Required to bounce applications once .

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  26. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2017 at 1:02 PM

    Thank You!!!

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  27. AnonymousApril 8, 2017 at 5:57 AM

    Thank You!
    Thank You!!
    Thank You!!!

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