*> If you can prove you are you to the Android market (Google account
> authentication,
> phone call verification, show up in person, etc) you should be able to
> replace the
> key/certificate tied to your account. I don't think it's possible with
> the current security
> model though.*

The only problem here though is that there is no key tied to your
account...  This is on a per-app basis.  I'm not saying this is a good idea
but technically you could you a different key for every single one of your
apps.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Nikolay Elenkov
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:45 PM, hoyski <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I knew all of the inputs I'd used to create the keystore so I thought
> > there may be some way to recreate it. Searching Google I found that
> > the answers fell into two categories: "Dude, you're screwed" and
> > "Dude, you're [expletive deleted]."
>
> Technically, you only need your private key. But since there is no easy
> way to extract it from the JKS keystore (you *could* convert it to PKCS#12
>  and then use OpenSSL to extract it), you'd better backup the whole
> keystore.
>
> That said, it would be nice if there were some way to recover from
> losing your key.
> If you can prove you are you to the Android market (Google account
> authentication,
> phone call verification, show up in person, etc) you should be able to
> replace the
> key/certificate tied to your account. I don't think it's possible with
> the current security
>  model though.
>
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