It's really useful for things like bootstrapping keystores for symmetric keys.
Many StackOverflows exist of people doing it manually to "work around" this limitation. I've done it myself especially when working on an identity management appliance. Matthew. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:54:53AM +0800, Wang Weijun wrote: > How is this useful? > > On the other hand, you can always import a cert and remove it to get an empty > keystore. > > --Max > > > On Dec 15, 2014, at 04:24, Rich Midwinter <rich.midwin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'd like to see a new switch added to keytool to initialise an empty > > keystore, for which I've attached a first shot at a patch. > > > > Could someone point me in the right direction (a sponsor?) to see if this > > can be included. > > > > Thanks > > Rich > > > > <keytool.patch.txt> >
