Trust Anchor not found for Android SSL Connection
Solution 1:
Contrary to the accepted answer you do not need a custom trust manager, you need to fix your server configuration!
I hit the same problem while connecting to an Apache server with an incorrectly installed dynadot/alphassl certificate. I'm connecting using HttpsUrlConnection (Java/Android), which was throwing -
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException:
java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException:
Trust anchor for certification path not found.
The actual problem is a server misconfiguration - test it with http://www.digicert.com/help/ or similar, and it will even tell you the solution:
"The certificate is not signed by a trusted authority (checking against Mozilla's root store). If you bought the certificate from a trusted authority, you probably just need to install one or more Intermediate certificates. Contact your certificate provider for assistance doing this for your server platform."
You can also check the certificate with openssl:
openssl s_client -debug -connect www.thedomaintocheck.com:443
You'll probably see:
Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)
and, earlier in the output:
depth=0 OU = Domain Control Validated, CN = www.thedomaintocheck.com
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:1
depth=0 OU = Domain Control Validated, CN = www.thedomaintocheck.com
verify error:num=27:certificate not trusted
verify return:1
depth=0 OU = Domain Control Validated, CN = www.thedomaintocheck.com
verify error:num=21:unable to verify the first certificate`
The certificate chain will only contain 1 element (your certificate):
Certificate chain
0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=www.thedomaintocheck.com
i:/O=AlphaSSL/CN=AlphaSSL CA - G2
... but should reference the signing authorities in a chain back to one which is trusted by Android (Verisign, GlobalSign, etc):
Certificate chain
0 s:/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=www.thedomaintocheck.com
i:/O=AlphaSSL/CN=AlphaSSL CA - G2
1 s:/O=AlphaSSL/CN=AlphaSSL CA - G2
i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/OU=Root CA/CN=GlobalSign Root CA
2 s:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/OU=Root CA/CN=GlobalSign Root CA
i:/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/OU=Root CA/CN=GlobalSign Root CA
Instructions (and the intermediate certificates) for configuring your server are usually provided by the authority that issued your certificate, for example: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.html
After installing the intermediate certificates provided by my certificate issuer I now have no errors when connecting using HttpsUrlConnection.
Solution 2:
The solution of @Chrispix is dangerous! Trusting all certificates allows anybody to do a man in the middle attack! Just send ANY certificate to the client and it will accept it!
Add your certificate(s) to a custom trust manager like described in this post: Trusting all certificates using HttpClient over HTTPS
Although it is a bit more complex to establish a secure connection with a custom certificate, it will bring you the wanted ssl encryption security without the danger of man in the middle attack!
Solution 3:
You can trust particular certificate at runtime.
Just download it from server, put in assets and load like this using ssl-utils-android:
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
SSLContext sslContext = SslUtils.getSslContextForCertificateFile(context, "BPClass2RootCA-sha2.cer");
client.setSslSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory());
In the example above I used OkHttpClient but SSLContext can be used with any client in Java.
If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'm the author of this small library.
Solution 4:
Update based on latest Android documentation (March 2017):
When you get this type of error:
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
at org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.OpenSSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(OpenSSLSocketImpl.java:374)
at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.setupSecureSocket(HttpConnection.java:209)
at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.makeSslConnection(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:478)
at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:433)
at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:290)
at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:240)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:282)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:177)
at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:271)
the issue could be one of the following:
- The CA that issued the server certificate was unknown
- The server certificate wasn't signed by a CA, but was self signed
- The server configuration is missing an intermediate CA
The solution is to teach HttpsURLConnection to trust a specific set of CAs. How? Please check https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-ssl.html#CommonProblems
Others who are using AsyncHTTPClient from com.loopj.android:android-async-http library, please check Setup AsyncHttpClient to use HTTPS.
Solution 5:
If you use retrofit, you need to customize your OkHttpClient.
retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder() .baseUrl(ApplicationData.FINAL_URL) .client(getUnsafeOkHttpClient().build()) .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create()) .build();
Full code are as below.
public class RestAdapter {
private static Retrofit retrofit = null;
private static ApiInterface apiInterface;
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);
}
}
public static ApiInterface getApiClient() {
if (apiInterface == null) {
try {
retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(ApplicationData.FINAL_URL)
.client(getUnsafeOkHttpClient().build())
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.build();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
apiInterface = retrofit.create(ApiInterface.class);
}
return apiInterface;
}
}