On Mar 12, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Hendrik Schreiber <h...@tagtraum.com> wrote:
> Hey... > > I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Apple and subsequently OpenJDK > provides support for using the Apple KeyChain as a keystore. > As I common use case, I tried to use it to store passwords for third party > services (Twitter, git, whatever), but couldn't get it to work. > > Apparently the implementation lacks support for SecretKeyEntry, as pointed > out in > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/727812/storing-username-password-on-mac-using-java#727840 The stackoverflow entry seems correct that password entries don't show alias's. java -cp . KeyStoreTester | grep github KeychainStore Ignored Exception: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Signature algorithm mismatch KeychainStore Ignored Exception: java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: java.io.IOException: Duplicate extensions not allowed Shows nothing for a password, it does show keys & certs, but it also oddly gets a couple exceptions. import java.security.*; import java.util.Enumeration; public class KeyStoreTester { public static void main(String[] args) { try { KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("KeychainStore","Apple"); ks.load(null,"ANY".toCharArray()); System.out.println(ks.getProvider()); Enumeration<String> e = ks.aliases(); while (e.hasMoreElements()) System.out.println(e.nextElement()); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } java -version java version "1.7.0_51" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode) Michael Hall trz nio.2 for OS X http://www195.pair.com/mik3hall/index.html#trz HalfPipe Java 6/7 shell app http://www195.pair.com/mik3hall/index.html#halfpipe AppConverter convert Apple jvm to openjdk apps http://www195.pair.com/mik3hall/index.html#appconverter
