diff --git a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/client/Client.java b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/client/Client.java
index 620497d08ba7..5c89dea48e74 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/client/Client.java
+++ b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/client/Client.java
@@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ private Configuration setupTrustStoreForHadoop(KeyStore trustStore)
 
     Configuration sslConf = new Configuration();
     // Type is the Java default, we use the same JVM to read this back
-    sslConf.set("ssl.client.keystore.location", trustStoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
-    sslConf.set("ssl.client.keystore.password", password);
+    sslConf.set("ssl.client.truststore.location", trustStoreFile.getAbsolutePath());
+    sslConf.set("ssl.client.truststore.password", password);
     return sslConf;
   }