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I want to pass messages to and from the server/client and use a RSA cipher, but I can't figure out how to generate a pair, and pass the public key to the other, and then use it.

I am trying to modify this code that I found via Google:
 
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The code already generates a key pair, and extracts both private and public key, no? The data to be used can be gotten from either key by calling the "getEncoded" method.
 
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I know, but I want to specifically set a public key that coincides with the private key the server generates.

I can't figure out how to set a key...
 
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Once you have the bytes that make up a key, you can create a Key object from it like this:
 
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Well Ulf, I tried fiddling with it for a bit, and googling the error, and I can't seem to get it...

Here is what I have atm:


And here is the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.security.InvalidKeyException: Neither a public nor a private key
at sun.security.rsa.RSAKeyFactory.engineTranslateKey(RSAKeyFactory.java:193)
at sun.security.rsa.RSAKeyFactory.toRSAKey(RSAKeyFactory.java:111)
at com.sun.crypto.provider.RSACipher.init(RSACipher.java:260)
at com.sun.crypto.provider.RSACipher.engineInit(RSACipher.java:205)
at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Cipher.java:986)
at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(Cipher.java:935)
at TestRsa2.encrypt(TestRsa2.java:32)
at TestRsa2.main(TestRsa2.java:70)
 
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:Once you have the bytes that make up a key, you can create a Key object from it like this:



That is for a secret (symmetric) key. For a public key, you create an X509EncodedKeySpec from the result of PublicKey.getEncoded(). You supply the X509EncodedKeySpec instance to a KeyFactory instance. Using the getInstance() method to get an RSA instance. Then use the generatePublic() method and supply the X509EncodedKeySpec to it to get the public key.
 
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Thanks Greg, I finally got it to work.
 
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