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Use AWS CloudHSM key store with keytool using Client SDK 3

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Use AWS CloudHSM key store with keytool using Client SDK 3 - AWS CloudHSM

Keytool is a popular command line utility for common key and certificate tasks on Linux systems. A complete tutorial on keytool is out of scope for AWS CloudHSM documentation. This article explains the specific parameters you should use with various keytool functions when utilizing AWS CloudHSM as the root of trust through the AWS CloudHSM key store.

When using keytool with the AWS CloudHSM key store, specify the following arguments to any keytool command:

-storetype CLOUDHSM \
		-J-classpath '-J/opt/cloudhsm/java/*' \
		-J-Djava.library.path=/opt/cloudhsm/lib

If you want to create a new key store file using AWS CloudHSM key store, see Use the AWS CloudHSM KeyStore for AWS CloudHSM Client SDK 3. To use an existing key store, specify its name (including path) using the –keystore argument to keytool. If you specify a non-existent key store file in a keytool command, the AWS CloudHSM key store creates a new key store file.

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