Java keytool error on keystore directory

Question

All I'm trying to do is create a .keystore file for my android application. But I have two problems

1. Where is the output .keystore file after I run this command?

   keytool -genkey -v -keystore shumi.keystore -alias shumi -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

2. With problem #1, I tried looking for documentation I could understand and answered questions here on stackoverflow. I learned that -keystore should be a path but I can't seem to find the right syntax. I tried the following code but it gave me a FileNotFoundException.

   keytool -genkey -v -keystore C:/shumi.keystore -alias shumi -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Happy Holidays and please, someone help.

Answer 1

Keytool generates the keystore file in the current folder, if you only pass a file name after -keystore.

The FileNotFoundException in your second command is just a permission problem: Windows doesn't allow regular users to create new files in C:\. Just use a path where you have write privileges like your home folder.