Reading elliptic curve private key from file with BouncyCastle

Question

The BouncyCastle cryptography APIs allow for creating and verifying digital signatures using the regular java.security package objects, such as java.secur

Answer 1

In addition to the standard JCE approach shown by divanov as long as you give it the correct input (see my comment thereto), or just using JCE in the first place like your selfanswer, BouncyCastle 1.48 up DOES still contain the old PEMReader functionality just organized a bit differently and for this case you can use something like:

static void SO22963581BCPEMPrivateEC () throws Exception {
    Security.addProvider(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider());
    Reader rdr = new StringReader ("-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----\n"
            +"MHQCAQEEIDzESrZFmTaOozu2NyiS8LMZGqkHfpSOoI/qA9Lw+d4NoAcGBSuBBAAK\n"
            +"oUQDQgAE7kIqoSQzC/UUXdFdQ9Xvu1Lri7pFfd7xDbQWhSqHaDtj+XY36Z1Cznun\n"
            +"GDxlA0AavdVDuoGXxNQPIed3FxPE3Q==\n"+"-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----\n");
    Object parsed = new org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser(rdr).readObject();
    KeyPair pair = new org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JcaPEMKeyConverter().getKeyPair((org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMKeyPair)parsed);
    System.out.println (pair.getPrivate().getAlgorithm());
}