error while signing Android app

Thu Apr 20 16:09:30 EDT 2023

The keystore file can contain more than one certificate (alias). 
For each certificate(alias) you can specify an other password (and also other values for FullName, Organization, OrganizationUnit and so on.

The name of the alias is only important for you so that you can distinguish between the different certificates (aliases) in the keystore.

You could of course use the same password for the Keystore itself and also for each alias, but for security reasons it might be better to use one password to secure the Keystore and different passwords for each alias.
Regards,
Matthias

> Am 20.04.2023 um 21:15 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hi Jacque,
> 
>> Am 20.04.2023 um 18:11 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> I did a search for the first few words of the error message and got a lot of hits. Here's one:
>> https://stackoverflow.com/users/login?ssrc=head&returnurl=https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f23750259%2fcertificate-chain-not-found-how-to-fix-and-publish-to-google-play-store
>> 
>> There are several solutions but it sounds like the keystore file can't be found,
> 
> ??? I added this in the Standalone Application Setting.
> So it IS present and LC knows where it is! Not?
> Maybe I misunderstand this completely...
> 
>> or else the alias name doesn't match the keystore fillename. It may be that the keystore tool you're using assigned a different alias name.
> 
> Isn't that the meaning of an ALIAS? 
> That it can be named differently than the original?
> 
>> I wonder if diacriticals or foreign characters may interfere.
>> Name your alias and keystore with a single word using only plain ascii, no spaces or punctuation.
>> The outside world will never see it.
> 
> I did, only used ASCII and UNDERSCORES, NO spaces and umlauts etc.
> 
>> It's not hard to just use Terminal to generate your own keystore. That way you know what's in there.
> 
> I did and got different errors! :-/
> Oh my...
> 
> Matthias Rebbe helped me out and created a keystore file for me, 
> will test it tomorrow and report here about success or fail. :-)
> 
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On April 20, 2023 4:16:55 AM Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>>> Am 19.04.2023 um 22:08 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Jacque,
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 19.04.2023 um 21:43 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>> On 4/19/23 10:56 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
>>>>>> Hi friends,
>>>>>> I created a selfsigning keystore with the app
>>>>>> "Keymaker.app", which worked fine for my last app
>>>>>> created with LC 9.6.8.
>>>>>> But with LC 9.6.9 I get this LC error:
>>>>>> -----------------------------------
>>>>>> There was an error while saving the standalone application
>>>>>> signing failed - Certificate chain not found for: (PWD here)
>>>>>> (PWD here) must reference a valid KeyStore key entry containing
>>>>>> a private key and corresponding public key certificate chain
>>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgoqh4wh6cetbhl/keystore%20error.png?dl=0>
>>>>>> Do I need to crewate the key with Android Studio?
>>>>> Could this be related to the dialog box error that misplaces the insertion point when you type?
>>>> no, that looks like it has been fixed in LC 9.6.9 stable.
>>>>> Or did you get the error before it asked for the password?
>>>> No, that happens after I had entered all the passwords.
>>> 
>>> I don't even know what the dialog ist trying to tell me.
>>> Any ideas? Thank you.
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
> --
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> 
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