JcaKeyFactoryTest.java - Key Factory Test Program

JDK (Java Development Kit) Tutorials

Dr. Herong Yang, Version 5.00

∟PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

∟JcaKeyFactoryTest.java - Key Factory Test Program

This section provides a tutorial example on how to write a sample program to read encoded key files into key spec objects and convert them back into key objects.

The following sample program shows you how to use the KeyFactory class to read in encoded keys from files:

/**
 * JcaKeyFactoryTest.java
 * Copyright (c) 2002 by Dr. Herong Yang
 */
import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.security.*;
import java.security.interfaces.*;
import java.security.spec.*;
class JcaKeyFactoryTest {
   public static void main(String[] a) {
      if (a.length<3) {
         System.out.println("Usage:");
         System.out.println("java JcaKeyFactoryTest keySize output"
            +" algorithm");
         return;
      }
      int keySize = Integer.parseInt(a[0]);
      String output = a[1];
      String algorithm = a[2]; // RSA, DSA
      try {
         writeKeys(keySize,output,algorithm);
         readKeys(output,algorithm);
      } catch (Exception e) {
         System.out.println("Exception: "+e);
         return;
      }
   }
   private static void writeKeys(int keySize, String output, 
         String algorithm) throws Exception {
      KeyPairGenerator kg = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance(algorithm);
      kg.initialize(keySize);
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("KeyPairGenerator Object Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+kg.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Provider = "+kg.getProvider());
      System.out.println("Key Size = "+keySize);
      System.out.println("toString = "+kg.toString());
      KeyPair pair = kg.generateKeyPair();
      PrivateKey priKey = pair.getPrivate();
      PublicKey pubKey = pair.getPublic();

      String fl = output+".pri";
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fl);
      byte[] ky = priKey.getEncoded();
      out.write(ky);
      out.close();
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("Private Key Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+priKey.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Saved File = "+fl);
      System.out.println("Length = "+ky.length);
      System.out.println("Format = "+priKey.getFormat());
      System.out.println("toString = "+priKey.toString());

      fl = output+".pub";
      out = new FileOutputStream(fl);
      ky = pubKey.getEncoded();
      out.write(ky);
      out.close();
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("Public Key Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+pubKey.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Saved File = "+fl);
      System.out.println("Length = "+ky.length);
      System.out.println("Format = "+pubKey.getFormat());
      System.out.println("toString = "+pubKey.toString());
   }
   private static void readKeys(String input,
         String algorithm) throws Exception {
      KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(algorithm);
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("KeyFactory Object Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+keyFactory.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Provider = "+keyFactory.getProvider());
      System.out.println("toString = "+keyFactory.toString());

      String priKeyFile = input+".pri";
      FileInputStream priKeyStream = new FileInputStream(priKeyFile);
      int priKeyLength = priKeyStream.available();
      byte[] priKeyBytes = new byte[priKeyLength];
      priKeyStream.read(priKeyBytes);
      priKeyStream.close();
      PKCS8EncodedKeySpec priKeySpec 
         = new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(priKeyBytes);
      PrivateKey priKey = keyFactory.generatePrivate(priKeySpec);
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("Private Key Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+priKey.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Saved File = "+priKeyFile);
      System.out.println("Length = "+priKeyBytes.length);
      System.out.println("toString = "+priKey.toString());

      String pubKeyFile = input+".pub";
      FileInputStream pubKeyStream = new FileInputStream(pubKeyFile);
      int pubKeyLength = pubKeyStream.available();
      byte[] pubKeyBytes = new byte[pubKeyLength];
      pubKeyStream.read(pubKeyBytes);
      pubKeyStream.close();
      X509EncodedKeySpec pubKeySpec 
         = new X509EncodedKeySpec(pubKeyBytes);
      PublicKey pubKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(pubKeySpec);
      System.out.println();
      System.out.println("Public Key Info: ");
      System.out.println("Algorithm = "+pubKey.getAlgorithm());
      System.out.println("Saved File = "+pubKeyFile);
      System.out.println("Length = "+pubKeyBytes.length);
      System.out.println("toString = "+pubKey.toString());
   }
}

Note that:

The first part, writeKeys(), is designed to generate a private key and a public key and write them to 2 separate files.
The second part, readKeys(), is designed to read the private key and the public key back from those 2 files.
Of course, readKeys() can also be used to read in any encoded key files as long as they use encoding formats supported by JDK.

See the next section for testing result of JcaKeyFactoryTest.java.

Last update: 2006.

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