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There is no such thing as a PKCS#8 public key. What is used when decoding a "PKCS#8 public key" in this library is called a "SubjectPublicKeyInfo" or "spki" for short.
The PKCS#8 only describes (possibly encrypted) private keys. As these private keys also contain a key type / algorithm they have the same role as SubjectPublicKeyInfo (this is why they don't need the algorithm description in the PEM header, i.e. PRIVATE / PUBLIC KEY instead of RSA PRIVATE / PUBLIC KEY).
I think it would be best to add a "SubjectPublicKeyInfo" or "spki" encoding / decoding format for the Import/Export keys
functionality, and explain that "pkcs8" can also be used to encode / decode formats for backwards compatibility.
The SubjectPublicKeyInfo format is specified in the X.509 specifications (which is why they are known as "X509" in Java, but I think "spki" is better and more commonplace). Of course, the BIT STRING simply contains the PKCS#1 encoded public key for RSA.
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There is no such thing as a PKCS#8 public key. What is used when decoding a "PKCS#8 public key" in this library is called a "SubjectPublicKeyInfo" or "spki" for short.
The PKCS#8 only describes (possibly encrypted) private keys. As these private keys also contain a key type / algorithm they have the same role as SubjectPublicKeyInfo (this is why they don't need the algorithm description in the PEM header, i.e. PRIVATE / PUBLIC KEY instead of RSA PRIVATE / PUBLIC KEY).
I think it would be best to add a
"SubjectPublicKeyInfo"
or"spki"
encoding / decoding format for the Import/Export keysfunctionality, and explain that "pkcs8" can also be used to encode / decode formats for backwards compatibility.
The SubjectPublicKeyInfo format is specified in the X.509 specifications (which is why they are known as
"X509"
in Java, but I think"spki"
is better and more commonplace). Of course, the BIT STRING simply contains the PKCS#1 encoded public key for RSA.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: