CertificateException - OpenSSLX509CertificateFactory$ParsingException

Question

I have the following code in my android project where i am connecting to secured server. I am getting the parse error. [pasted below] .if anyone knows about this exception, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Code Snippet

CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
InputStream caInput = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("/storage/emulated/0/cert.p12"));
Certificate ca;
try {
    ca = cf.generateCertificate(caInput);   // error at this line
    System.out.println("ca=" + ((X509Certificate) ca).getSubjectDN());
} finally {
    caInput.close();
}    

Error

01-15 17:01:00.107: W/System.err(14932): java.security.cert.CertificateException:   com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLX509CertificateFactory$ParsingException: com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLX509CertificateFactory$ParsingException: java.lang.RuntimeException: error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag
01-15 17:01:00.107: W/System.err(14932):    at   com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLX509CertificateFactory.engineGenerateCertificate(OpenSSLX509CertificateFactory.java:272)

01-15 17:01:00.107: W/System.err(14932): at java.security.cert.CertificateFactory.generateCertificate(CertificateFactory.java:195)

Solution

I found the solution to this same problem. Include the "BC" provider to this line of code, and the error could disappear: getInstance("X.509", "BC")

Comments

[Amitsharma]

@ Josh how we can add this

[Josh]

Hi @Amitsharma , that code is for the TrustManager instance. You can find some ideas, in the answer I posted for this: stackoverflow.com/questions/859111/…