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# Certificates

## Creation

Once the store has been created it can be used to generate a certificate.

```bash
keytool -certreq -keystore storeName.jks -alias someAlias -file test.csr
```

## Importing

```
keytool -import -keystore storeName.jks -alias someAlias -file test.cer
```