Reading PEM RSA Public Key Only using Bouncy Castle

Question

I am trying to use C# to read in a .pem file that contains only a RSA public key. I do not have access to the private key information, nor does my application

Answer 1

In answer to c0d3Junk13, I had the same issue for a PEM private key and it took me all afternoon to find the solution using the C# BouncyCastle Version 1.7 and Visual Studio 2013 Desktop Express. Don't forget to add the project reference to BouncyCastle.Crypto.dll

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Asn1.X509;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Asn1.Pkcs;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Digests;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Signers;
using Org.BouncyCastle.X509;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Math;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Math.EC;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Utilities.Collections;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Utilities.Encoders;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto; 
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Engines; 
using Org.BouncyCastle.OpenSsl;

/* 
    For an Active Directory generated pem, strip out everything in pem file before line:
    "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----" and re-save.
*/
string privateKeyFileName = @"C:\CertificateTest\CS\bccrypto-net-1.7-bin\private_key3.pem";

TextReader reader = File.OpenText(privateKeyFileName);

Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters.RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters key;

using (reader = File.OpenText(privateKeyFileName))
{
    key = (Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters.RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters)new PemReader(reader).ReadObject();
}

cipher.Init(false, key);

//Decrypting the input bytes

byte[] decipheredBytes = cipher.ProcessBlock(cipheredBytes, 0, cipheredBytes.Length);

MessageBox.Show(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decipheredBytes));