What is difference between cacerts and keystore

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What s the difference between the two  cacerts and keystore   If I use the definition found in these links  cacerts and keystore  it seems that they re a collection of certificates  but in context of a  Java  distributed system  Which one is used to authenticate during an SSL connection  Both or just one of them or alternate

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Check your JAVA HOME path  As systems looks for a java policy file which is located in JAVA HOME jre lib security  Your JAVA HOME should always be    JAVA JDK

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cacerts is where Java stores public certificates of root CAs  Java uses cacerts to authenticate the servers   Keystore is where Java stores the private keys of the clients so that it can share it to the server when the server requests client authentication

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cacerts  is a truststore  A trust store is used to authenticate peers  A keystore is used to authenticate yourself

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Cacerts are details of trusted signing authorities who can issue certs  This what most of the browsers have due to which certs determined to be authentic   Keystone has your service related certs to authenticate clients

[java] What is difference between cacerts and keystore?

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