I was attempting to generate a public ECDSA key from a private key, and I haven't managed to find much help on the internet as to how to do this. Pretty much everything is for generating a public key from a public key spec, and I don't know how to get that. So far, this is what I've put together:
public void setPublic() throws GeneralSecurityException {
ECNamedCurveParameterSpec params = ECNamedCurveTable.getParameterSpec("secp256k1");
KeyFactory fact = KeyFactory.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");
ECCurve curve = params.getCurve();
java.security.spec.EllipticCurve ellipticCurve = EC5Util.convertCurve(curve, params.getSeed());
java.security.spec.ECPoint point = ECPointUtil.decodePoint(ellipticCurve, this.privateKey.getEncoded());
java.security.spec.ECParameterSpec params2=EC5Util.convertSpec(ellipticCurve, params);
java.security.spec.ECPublicKeySpec keySpec = new java.security.spec.ECPublicKeySpec(point,params2);
this.publicKey = fact.generatePublic(keySpec);
}
However, when running, I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid point encoding 0x30
at org.bouncycastle.math.ec.ECCurve.decodePoint(Unknown Source)
at org.bouncycastle.jce.ECPointUtil.decodePoint(Unknown Source)
at Wallet.Wallet.setPublic(Wallet.java:125)
What am I doing wrong? Is there a better/easier way to do this?
EDIT: I've managed to get some code to compile, but it does not work correctly:
public void setPublic() throws GeneralSecurityException {
BigInteger privKey = new BigInteger(getHex(privateKey.getEncoded()),16);
X9ECParameters ecp = SECNamedCurves.getByName("secp256k1");
ECPoint curvePt = ecp.getG().multiply(privKey);
BigInteger x = curvePt.getX().toBigInteger();
BigInteger y = curvePt.getY().toBigInteger();
byte[] xBytes = removeSignByte(x.toByteArray());
byte[] yBytes = removeSignByte(y.toByteArray());
byte[] pubKeyBytes = new byte[65];
pubKeyBytes[0] = new Byte("04");
System.arraycopy(xBytes, 0, pubKeyBytes, 1, xBytes.length);
System.arraycopy(yBytes, 0, pubKeyBytes, 33, xBytes.length);
ECNamedCurveParameterSpec params = ECNamedCurveTable.getParameterSpec("secp256k1");
KeyFactory fact = KeyFactory.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");
ECCurve curve = params.getCurve();
java.security.spec.EllipticCurve ellipticCurve = EC5Util.convertCurve(curve, params.getSeed());
java.security.spec.ECPoint point = ECPointUtil.decodePoint(ellipticCurve, pubKeyBytes);
java.security.spec.ECParameterSpec params2 = EC5Util.convertSpec(ellipticCurve, params);
java.security.spec.ECPublicKeySpec keySpec = new java.security.spec.ECPublicKeySpec(point,params2);
this.publicKey = fact.generatePublic(keySpec);
}
private byte[] removeSignByte(byte[] arr)
{
if(arr.length==33)
{
byte[] newArr = new byte[32];
System.arraycopy(arr, 1, newArr, 0, newArr.length);
return newArr;
}
return arr;
}
When I run it, it generates a publicKey, but it's not the same one that the private key corresponds to.
So after a while, I figured out a solution and decided to post it in case anyone else has the same issue as me:
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");
ECParameterSpec ecSpec = ECNamedCurveTable.getParameterSpec("secp256k1");
ECPoint Q = ecSpec.getG().multiply(((org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPrivateKey) this.privateKey).getD());
ECPublicKeySpec pubSpec = new ECPublicKeySpec(Q, ecSpec);
PublicKey publicKeyGenerated = keyFactory.generatePublic(pubSpec);
this.publicKey = publicKeyGenerated;
EDIT: Removed the code decoding the ECPoint as per @MaartenBodewes comment.