Java compact representation of ECC PublicKey

Question

java.security.PublicKey#getEncoded() returns X509 representation of key which in case of ECC adds a lot of overhead compared to raw ECC values.

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Answer 1

With BouncyCastle, ECPoint.getEncoded(true) returns a compressed representation of the point. Basically the affine X coordinate with a sign bit for the affine Y.