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Java: Converting between Key type and String

Is it possible to take a public key that I have generated, convert it into a string, reverse the process and use it as a key again?
generator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
generator.initialize(2048);
KeyPair keyPair = generator.generateKeyPair();
RSAPublicKey publicKey = (RSAPublicKey) keyPair.getPublic();
RSAPrivateKey privateKey = (RSAPrivateKey) keyPair.getPrivate();
Then convert this to a string:
String public = someMethod(publicKey)
and then Reverse it at a later time:
RSAPublicKey newPublicKey = someMethod(public)

You can convert the Public Key to a String as follows.
String publicKeyString = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(publicKey.getEncoded());
Then that String can be converted back to a public key as follows.
byte[] publicKeyBytes = Base64.getDecoder().decode(publicKeyString);
X509EncodedKeySpec spec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicKeyBytes);
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
PublicKey publicKey2 = keyFactory.generatePublic(spec);

String to Public key using Base64.getEncoder() [duplicate]

I've used the following code to convert the public and private key to a string
KeyPairGenerator keyPairGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
keyPairGen.initialize(2048);
KeyPair keyPair = keyPairGen.genKeyPair();
PublicKey publicKey = keyPair.getPublic();
PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();
String publicK = Base64.encodeBase64String(publicKey.getEncoded());
String privateK = Base64.encodeBase64String(privateKey.getEncoded());
Now I'm trying to convert it back to public ad private key
PublicKey publicDecoded = Base64.decodeBase64(publicK);
I'm getting error of cannot convert from byte[] to public key. So I tried like this
PublicKey publicDecoded = new SecretKeySpec(Base64.decodeBase64(publicK),"RSA");
This leads to error like below
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: java.security.InvalidKeyException: Neither a public nor a private key
Looks like I'm doing wrong key conversion here. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't think you can use the SecretKeySpec with RSA.
This should do:
byte[] publicBytes = Base64.decodeBase64(publicK);
X509EncodedKeySpec keySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicBytes);
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
PublicKey pubKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(keySpec);
And to decode the private use PKCS8EncodedKeySpec

Android-Java RSA decrypt

i need to create a public key for RSA algorithm from a binary string.
My code is:
String pubKey = "tihq/Gk3OUs5NzP+XTRKXBwSxHtB0TWn0RREcpXEtp316tyD9DzKaIbdKexb/mRr";
byte[] keyBytes = Base64.decode(pubKey,Base64.DEFAULT);
//test if is correct: ok
Log.d("response keyBytes",new String(Base64.encode(keyBytes,Base64.DEFAULT)));
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
X509EncodedKeySpec spec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(keyBytes);
RSAPublicKey publicKey = (RSAPublicKey) keyFactory.generatePublic(spec);
//PublicKey publicKey = (PublicKey) keyFactory.generatePublic(spec);
But i have this error:
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: java.lang.RuntimeException: error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag

SOLVED.
The problem is that i have modulus and exponent and so i must to do this:
String pubKey = "tihq/Gk3OUs5NzP+XTRKXBwSxHtB0TWn0RREcpXEtp316tyD9DzKaIbdKexb/mRr"; //64 caratteri
String exponent = "AQAB";
byte[] keyBytes = Base64.decode(pubKey,Base64.DEFAULT);
byte[] exponentByte = Base64.decode(exponent,Base64.DEFAULT);
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
RSAPublicKeySpec pubKeySpec = new RSAPublicKeySpec(new BigInteger(keyBytes), new BigInteger(exponentByte));
RSAPublicKey publicKey = (RSAPublicKey) keyFactory.generatePublic(pubKeySpec);

How to convert Byte array to PrivateKey or PublicKey type?

I am using RSA algorithm to generate public and private key
final KeyPairGenerator keyGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
keyGen.initialize(1024);
final KeyPair key = keyGen.generateKeyPair();
final PrivateKey privateKey=key.getPrivate();
final PublicKey publickey=key.getPublic();
after that these keys are encoded using Base64 encoder and save it into database.
How to convert this encoded String to Private and Public Key Type in java is to decrypt file.
when decoding this String using Base64Decoder will get a byte array. how to convert this Byte array to public or private key type?

If you have a byte[] representing the output of getEncoded() on a key, you can use KeyFactory to turn that back into a PublicKey object or a PrivateKey object.
byte[] privateKeyBytes;
byte[] publicKeyBytes;
KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA"); // or "EC" or whatever
PrivateKey privateKey = kf.generatePrivate(new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(privateKeyBytes));
PublicKey publicKey = kf.generatePublic(new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicKeyBytes));

RSA in Java given n and e

My application receives the raw pieces of a public RSA key (n and e) and needs to use these to encrypt a cipher text. I've been trying to use BouncyCastle but my code isn't working. The problem arises in trying to create the X509EncodedKeySpec.
Can anyone help me get this working? Here's the code I have:
public static PublicKey getPublicKeyFromString(String key) throws Exception
{
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
EncodedKeySpec publicKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(Base64Encoder.decode(key));
PublicKey publicKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);
return publicKey;
}
I guess the real problem is that n and e are separate and I don't know how to combine them.

Why are you not using new RSAPublicKeySpec(n,e)?

public static PublicKey getPublicKeyFromString(String key) throws Exception
{
BASE64Decoder b64 = new BASE64Decoder();
KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
EncodedKeySpec publicKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(b64.decodeBuffer(key));
PublicKey publicKey = keyFactory.generatePublic(publicKeySpec);
return publicKey;
}