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POJava: Public key different after sent over socket
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copied!<p>I'm trying to send a public key over a socket connection in Java. While I'm very conscious Java provides SSL functionality for this sort of activity, this is a uni assignment; I cannot use the Java implementation.</p> <p>The server encodes its public key and transmits it to the client via socket connection. When the client receives the key and decodes it, it appears different. Not only this, the data received by the client appears different to that transmitted by the server. I believe this is giving me problems when I attempt to then encrypt a user name and password using this key.</p> <p>The problem can be reproduced with the following code:</p> <p>Client:</p> <pre><code>public class TestClient { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { final int sPort = 4321; Socket sock = null; Key serverPubKey = null; BufferedReader clientIn = null; // Initialise server connection try{ sock = new Socket(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), sPort); clientIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream())); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { System.out.println("Unknown host."); System.exit(1); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("No I/O"); System.exit(1); } // Get server pub key try{ int len = Integer.parseInt(clientIn.readLine()); byte[] servPubKeyBytes = new byte[len]; sock.getInputStream().read(servPubKeyBytes,0,len); System.out.println(servPubKeyBytes); X509EncodedKeySpec ks = new X509EncodedKeySpec(servPubKeyBytes); KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA"); serverPubKey = kf.generatePublic(ks); System.out.println(serverPubKey.getEncoded()); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("Error obtaining server public key 1."); System.exit(0); } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) { System.out.println("Error obtaining server public key 2."); System.exit(0); } catch (InvalidKeySpecException e) { System.out.println("Error obtaining server public key 3."); System.exit(0); } } } </code></pre> <p>Server:</p> <pre><code>public class TestServer { public static void main(String[] args) { final int servPort = 4321; final int RSAKeySize = 1024; final String newline = "\n"; Key pubKey = null; ServerSocket cServer = null; Socket cClient = null; PrintWriter cOut = null; // Initialise RSA try{ KeyPairGenerator RSAKeyGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA"); RSAKeyGen.initialize(RSAKeySize); KeyPair pair = RSAKeyGen.generateKeyPair(); pubKey = pair.getPublic(); } catch (GeneralSecurityException e) { System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage() + newline); System.out.println("Error initialising encryption. Exiting.\n"); System.exit(0); } // Initialise socket connection try{ cServer = new ServerSocket(servPort); cClient = cServer.accept(); cOut = new PrintWriter(cClient.getOutputStream(), true); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("Error initialising I/O.\n"); System.exit(0); } // Send public key try { cOut.println(pubKey.getEncoded().length); System.out.println(pubKey.getEncoded()); cClient.getOutputStream().write(pubKey.getEncoded()); cClient.getOutputStream().flush(); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("I/O Error"); System.exit(0); } } } </code></pre> <p>This may be as simple as informing me my key is not X509 encoded, however this appears to be the way a key is recovered from a file (also read as bytes) so I can't understand why it won't work?</p> <p>Thanks very much in advance for any help/suggestions.</p> <p>Edit: problem solved, see Jeffrey's response. Modified (working) code posted as response.</p>

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