JDK (Java Development Kit) Tutorials

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

∟Reading RSA Private and Public Key Files

This section provides a tutorial example on running the test program JcaKeyFactoryTest.java to generate, write, read and convert RSA private and public keys.

Here is the result of my second test on JcaKeyFactoryTest.java for RSA private and public keys. It is done with JDK 1.3.1.

java -cp . JcaKeyFactoryTest 512 rsa RSA

KeyPairGenerator Object Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Provider = SunRsaSign version 1.0
Key Size = 512
toString = java.security.KeyPairGenerator$Delegate@2f6684

Private Key Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Saved File = rsa.pri
Length = 343
Format = PKCS8
toString = com.sun.rsajca.JSA_RSAPrivateKey@372a1a

Public Key Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Saved File = rsa.pub
Length = 94
Format = X509
toString = com.sun.rsajca.JSA_RSAPublicKey@12d342

KeyFactory Object Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Provider = SunRsaSign version 1.0
toString = java.security.KeyFactory@5ff48b

Private Key Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Saved File = rsa.pri
Length = 343
toString = com.sun.rsajca.JSA_RSAPrivateKey@fe7c3

Public Key Info:
Algorithm = RSA
Saved File = rsa.pub
Length = 94
toString = com.sun.rsajca.JSA_RSAPublicKey@3e2d65

The result confirms that my readKeys() method works perfectly.

Last update: 2006.

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 Message Digest Algorithm Implementations in JDK

 Private key and Public Key Pair Generation

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

 What Is Key Encoding?

 PKCS#8 and X.509 Key Encoding Classes

 java.security.KeyFactory - Reading Encoded Keys

 JcaKeyFactoryTest.java - Key Factory Test Program

 Reading DSA Private and Public Key Files

►Reading RSA Private and Public Key Files

 Digital Signature Algorithm and Sample Program

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