keytool Overview

The Symbian platform provides a key store, which is a repository of private keys that can be programmatically retrieved and used to accomplish a variety of tasks. The key store is initially empty. To insert private keys and manipulate them, you can use keytool.

The Symbian keystore is meant to store private keys in a PKI setting. Keys for symmetric cryptography cannot be stored in the keystore.

Keytool is an eshell program which manipulates the key store. Its main features are:

• List the content of a key store

• Insertion and Removal of private keys

• Manipulation of the registered users for a given key, ownership, usages, etc.

• Support for multiple key store implementations

The keytool must be used from an eshell. You can start it using eshell.exe.