I've used the following code to convert the public and private key to a string
KeyPairGenerator keyPairGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
keyPairGen.initialize(2048);
KeyPair keyPair = keyPairGen.genKeyPair();
PublicKey publicKey = keyPair.getPublic();
PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();
String publicK = Base64.encodeBase64String(publicKey.getEncoded());
String privateK = Base64.encodeBase64String(privateKey.getEncoded());
Now I'm trying to convert it back to public ad private key
PublicKey publicDecoded = Base64.decodeBase64(publicK);
I'm getting error of cannot convert from byte[] to public key. So I tried like this
PublicKey publicDecoded = new SecretKeySpec(Base64.decodeBase64(publicK),"RSA");
This leads to error like below
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: java.security.InvalidKeyException: Neither a public nor a private key
Looks like I'm doing wrong key conversion here. Any help would be appreciated.
I don't think you can use the SecretKeySpec
with RSA.
This should do:
byte[] publicBytes = Base64.decodeBase64(publicK);
X509EncodedKeySpec keySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicBytes);
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
PublicKey pubKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(keySpec);
And to decode the private use PKCS8EncodedKeySpec