Re: [Cryptix-users] using a plain text private key to sign text (PGP)

[Edwin W. <ed...@wo...>]

>> I've looked at the examples, but I can't figure out a way to use a plain
>> text private key to sign some text.
>>
>> I can't use a keystore because the method I'm writing will receive the
>> key and the text to be signed as Strings and return another String which
>> is the signed text.
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction? I just need the Classes to
>> use and I should be able to figure things out by my self.
>
> Are KeySpec and SecretKeyFactory what you are looking for?
>
> See:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html#S
> ecretFactory

Not for OpenPGP.

Use something like:

		ByteArrayInputStream in =
			new ByteArrayInputStream(keyString.getBytes());
            KeyBundleFactory kbf =
                KeyBundleFactory.getInstance("OpenPGP");
            KeyBundle bundle = kbf.generateKeyBundle(in);
            in.close();


Edwin