Java Security

Hi Folks,

I'd be grateful for any suggestions/prcedures for recovering from this mess:

1. Used keytool -certreq to create a certificate request;
2. Keystore got damaged so data added by -certreq function is now gone;
3. Got expensive CA certificate, but can't figure out how to import it. (The self-signed certificate used to create the request is gone.)

I have:
Certificate request csr file; and
CA's certificate file.

I do not have:
keypass value entered at the time the csr was created.

I've tried creating another self-signed certificate using keytool, but either I'm doing something wrong or it just won't work to import it into an existing alias. I can't import it as a trusted certificate because there'll be no associated private key or alias password, right?

Any way to get the CA certificate into the keystore and still have it work as intended?

Is there some way to use the data in the csr file to create the alias entry I need in the keystore?

Thanks for any suggestions.

John

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JMCraig