Write x509 certificate into PEM formatted string in java?

Question

Is there some high level way to write an X509Certificate into a PEM formatted string? Currently I\'m doing x509cert.encode() to write it into a DER formatted string, then ba

Answer 1

In BouncyCastle 1.60 PEMWriter has been deprecated in favour of PemWriter.

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

try (PemWriter pw = new PemWriter(sw)) {
  PemObjectGenerator gen = new JcaMiscPEMGenerator(cert);
  pw.writeObject(gen);
}

return sw.toString();

PemWriter is buffered so you do need to flush/close it before accessing the writer that it was constructed with.