CertPathValidatorException : Trust anchor for certificate path not found - Retrofit Android
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Okay, I got it working using Android Developers guide.
Just as OP, I'm trying to use Retrofit and OkHttp to connect to a self-signed SSL-enabled server.
Here's the code that got things working (I've removed the try/catch blocks):
public static RestAdapter createAdapter(Context context) {
// loading CAs from an InputStream
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
InputStream cert = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.my_cert);
Certificate ca;
try {
ca = cf.generateCertificate(cert);
} finally { cert.close(); }
// creating a KeyStore containing our trusted CAs
String keyStoreType = KeyStore.getDefaultType();
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(keyStoreType);
keyStore.load(null, null);
keyStore.setCertificateEntry("ca", ca);
// creating a TrustManager that trusts the CAs in our KeyStore
String tmfAlgorithm = TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm();
TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(tmfAlgorithm);
tmf.init(keyStore);
// creating an SSLSocketFactory that uses our TrustManager
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sslContext.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
// creating an OkHttpClient that uses our SSLSocketFactory
OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient();
okHttpClient.setSslSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory());
// creating a RestAdapter that uses this custom client
return new RestAdapter.Builder()
.setEndpoint(UrlRepository.API_BASE)
.setClient(new OkClient(okHttpClient))
.build();
}
To help in debugging, I also added .setLogLevel(RestAdapter.LogLevel.FULL) to my RestAdapter creation commands and I could see it connecting and getting the response from the server.
All it took was my original .crt file saved in main/res/raw.
The .crt file, aka the certificate, is one of the two files created when you create a certificate using openssl. Generally, it is a .crt or .cert file, while the other is a .key file.
Afaik, the .crt file is your public key and the .key file is your private key.
As I can see, you already have a .cert file, which is the same, so try to use it.
PS: For those that read it in the future and only have a .pem file, according to this answer, you only need this to convert one to the other:
openssl x509 -outform der -in your-cert.pem -out your-cert.crt
PS²: For those that don't have any file at all, you can use the following command (bash) to extract the public key (aka certificate) from any server:
echo -n | openssl s_client -connect your.server.com:443 | \
sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > ~/my_cert.crt
Just replace the your.server.com and the port (if it is not standard HTTPS) and choose a valid path for your output file to be created.
Use the below code to solve the CertPathValidatorException issue.
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(YOUR_BASE_URL)
.client(getUnsafeOkHttpClient().build())
.build();
public static OkHttpClient.Builder getUnsafeOkHttpClient() {
try {
// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
final TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
@Override
public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
@Override
public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
@Override
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return new java.security.cert.X509Certificate[]{};
}
}
};
// Install the all-trusting trust manager
final SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sslContext.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
// Create an ssl socket factory with our all-trusting manager
final SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = sslContext.getSocketFactory();
OkHttpClient.Builder builder = new OkHttpClient.Builder();
builder.sslSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory, (X509TrustManager) trustAllCerts[0]);
builder.hostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
@Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
});
return builder;
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
For more details visit https://mobikul.com/android-retrofit-handling-sslhandshakeexception/
I don't use Retrofit and for OkHttp here is the only solution for self-signed certificate that worked for me:
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Get a certificate from our site like in Gowtham's question and put it into res/raw dir of the project:
echo -n | openssl s_client -connect elkews.com:443 | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' > ./res/raw/elkews_cert.crt Use Paulo answer to set ssl factory (nowadays using OkHttpClient.Builder()) but without RestAdapter creation.
Then add the following solution to fix: SSLPeerUnverifiedException: Hostname not verified
So the end of Paulo's code (after sslContext initialization) that is working for me looks like the following:
...
OkHttpClient.Builder builder = new OkHttpClient.Builder().sslSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory());
builder.hostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
@Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return "secure.elkews.com".equalsIgnoreCase(hostname);
});
OkHttpClient okHttpClient = builder.build();
Retrofit 2.3.0
// Load CAs from an InputStream
CertificateFactory certificateFactory = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
InputStream inputStream = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.ssl_certificate); //(.crt)
Certificate certificate = certificateFactory.generateCertificate(inputStream);
inputStream.close();
// Create a KeyStore containing our trusted CAs
String keyStoreType = KeyStore.getDefaultType();
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(keyStoreType);
keyStore.load(null, null);
keyStore.setCertificateEntry("ca", certificate);
// Create a TrustManager that trusts the CAs in our KeyStore.
String tmfAlgorithm = TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm();
TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(tmfAlgorithm);
trustManagerFactory.init(keyStore);
TrustManager[] trustManagers = trustManagerFactory.getTrustManagers();
X509TrustManager x509TrustManager = (X509TrustManager) trustManagers[0];
// Create an SSLSocketFactory that uses our TrustManager
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[]{x509TrustManager}, null);
sslSocketFactory = sslContext.getSocketFactory();
//create Okhttp client
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
.sslSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory,x509TrustManager)
.build();
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(url)
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.client(client)
.build();