How to pass SSL keystore password? [duplicate]

Question

I am writing a little web framework and I want to enable SSL encryption with a SSL key which will be supplied by the user.

This might seem overly cautious, but is it common to pass the password for the keystore file as a String passed in the parameters of a method?

This is what I had in mind:

public void enableSSL(String keystorePath, String keystorePassword) {
    // ... do things
}

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:58:20Z

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It is always safer to store the password into character array than a string.

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answered Sep 8, 2015 at 22:50

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Please mark this question as duplicate rather than trying to feed off someone elses's answer.