Can I get the modulus or exponent from a SecKeyRef object in Swift?

Question

In Swift, I created a SecKeyRef object by calling SecTrustCopyPublicKey on some raw X509 certificate data. This is what this SecKeyRef object looks like.

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Answer 1

From How do I encode an unmanaged to base64 to send to another server? :

func convertSecKeyToBase64(inputKey: SecKey) ->String? {
    // Add to keychain
    let tempTag = "net.example." + NSUUID().UUIDString
    let addParameters :[String:AnyObject] = [
        String(kSecClass): kSecClassKey,
        String(kSecAttrApplicationTag): tempTag,
        String(kSecAttrKeyType): kSecAttrKeyTypeRSA,
        String(kSecValueRef): inputKey,
        String(kSecReturnData):kCFBooleanTrue
    ]

    var result: String?
    var keyPtr: AnyObject?
    if (SecItemAdd(addParameters, &keyPtr) == noErr) {
        let data = keyPtr! as! NSData
        result = data.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(NSDataBase64EncodingOptions(rawValue: 0))
    }
    // Remove from Keychain:
    SecItemDelete(addParameters)
    return result
}

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But if you want to avoid adding to keychain, you can use Mirror:

let mirrorKey = Mirror(reflecting: secKey)
let exponent = mirrorKey.descendant("exponent")
let modulus = mirrorKey.descendant("modulus");

[edit: Mirror not working according to Josh]