Trust Anchor not found for Android SSL Connection

Question

I am trying to connect to an IIS6 box running a godaddy 256bit SSL cert, and I am getting the error :

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust an         


        

Answer 1

In my case this was happening after update to Android 8.0. The self-signed certificate Android was set to trust was using signature algorithm SHA1withRSA. Switching to a new cert, using signature algorithm SHA256withRSA fixed the problem.