Get public key from private in Java

Question

I remember do this long time ago with OpenSSL, but I want to know if it's possible and how, I've never used Cryptography on java.

Answer 1

The assumption is that we are talking about RSA private and Public keys. Then, if you are working from a PEM format file, then first you need to read the private key from the file into a PrivateKey object:

    public PrivateKey readPemRsaPrivateKey(String pemFilename) throws
            java.io.IOException,
            java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException,
            java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException
    {
            String pemString = File2String(pemFilename);

            pemString = pemString.replace("-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n", "");
            pemString = pemString.replace("-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----", "");

            byte[] decoded = Base64.decodeBase64(pemString);

            PKCS8EncodedKeySpec keySpec = new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(decoded);
            KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");

            return kf.generatePrivate(keySpec);
    }

where File2String is something like:

    private static String File2String(String fileName) throws
            java.io.FileNotFoundException, java.io.IOException
    {
            File file = new File(fileName);

            char[] buffer = null;

            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));

            buffer = new char[(int)file.length()];

            int i = 0;
            int c = bufferedReader.read();

            while (c != -1) {
                    buffer[i++] = (char)c;
                    c = bufferedReader.read();
            }
            return new String(buffer);
    }

Now you can generate the corresponding PublicKey with code like this:

    import java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateCrtKey;
    import java.security.spec.RSAPublicKeySpec;

...

    PrivateKey myPrivateKey = readPemRsaPrivateKey(myPrivateKeyPemFileName);
    RSAPrivateCrtKey privk = (RSAPrivateCrtKey)myPrivateKey;

    RSAPublicKeySpec publicKeySpec = new java.security.spec.RSAPublicKeySpec(privk.getModulus(), privk.getPublicExponent());

    KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
    PublicKey myPublicKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);

Credits: How to get a RSA PublicKey by giving a PrivateKey?

Answer 2

Please make sure that Eli Rosencruft answer is basically correct, but the order of the modulus and the public exponent are incorrect! This is the correct statement:

RSAPublicKeySpec publicKeySpec = new java.security.spec.RSAPublicKeySpec(privk.getModulus(), privk.getPublicExponent());