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How to get the RSA public-key from private-key Object in Java

How to get the related public-key object java.security.PublicKey out of a private-key Object java.security.PrivateKey in the RSA cryptosystem.

Solution

  • Java is able to create a public key by using the modulus and exponent:

    RSAPublicKeySpec keySpec = new RSAPublicKeySpec(modulus, exponent);
kf.generatePublic(keySpec);

    So we need to extract these values out of the private key:

    KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
RSAPrivateKeySpec priv = kf.getKeySpec(privateKey, RSAPrivateKeySpec.class);

    The RSAPrivateKeySpec-Object now contains the modulus we need, but the exponent is not the one we need for the public key.

    For the public key the exponent is commonly at 65537: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65537_(number)

    Therefore we can now create the public key:

    KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
RSAPrivateKeySpec priv = kf.getKeySpec(privateKey, RSAPrivateKeySpec.class);

RSAPublicKeySpec keySpec = new RSAPublicKeySpec(priv.getModulus(), BigInteger.valueOf(65537));

PublicKey publicKey = kf.generatePublic(keySpec);