Hi
I am just starting with the certificate/security API so this may be a naive question. I have a certificate,private key signature & data from a third-party. I am using following program to verify the signature.
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import java.security.cert.CertificateFactory;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import java.security.spec.*;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
class VerSig {
public static void main(String[] args) {
/* Verify a DSA signature */
if (args.length != 3) {
System.out.println("Usage: VerSig publickeyfile signaturefile datafile");
}
else try{
InputStream inStream = new FileInputStream(args[0]);
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
Collection c = cf.generateCertificates(inStream);
Iterator i = c.iterator();
X509Certificate cert = null;
while (i.hasNext()) {
cert = (X509Certificate)i.next();
}
inStream.close();
PublicKey pubKey = null;
if (cert != null)
pubKey = cert.getPublicKey();
// create a Signature object and initialize it with the public key
Signature sig = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withDSA","SUN");
sig.initVerify(pubKey);
// Update and verify the data
FileInputStream datafis = new FileInputStream(args[2]);
BufferedInputStream bufin = new BufferedInputStream(datafis);
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int len;
while (bufin.available() != 0) {
len = bufin.read(buffer);
sig.update(buffer, 0, len);
};
bufin.close();
//input the signature bytes
FileInputStream sigfis = new FileInputStream(args[1]);
byte[] sigToVerify = new byte[sigfis.available()];
sigfis.read(sigToVerify );
sigfis.close();
boolean verifies = sig.verify(sigToVerify);
System.out.println("signature verifies: " + verifies);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Caught exception " + e.toString());
};
}
}
First of all :
1) I wrote "Signature sig = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withDSA","SUN");" because somewhere in the certificate, I saw Signature Algorithm: SHA1withDSA. Is this correct?
2)I am getting following exception after
Signature sig = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withDSA","SUN");"
sig.initVerify(pubKey);
Caught exception java.security.InvalidKeyException: not a DSA public key: algorithm = SHA1withDSA, params unparsed, unparsed keybits =
0000: 02 41 00 91 89 17 2D 83 2D 19 51 96 8F D3 A7 CE .A....-.-.Q.....
0010: 33 E7 B0 1F 6C 79 F4 91 3E B5 5E 81 92 42 65 BA 3...ly..>.^..Be.
0020: 56 F8 8B F4 FF 54 4F D6 ED 38 A4 71 BD BE D4 69 V....TO..8.q...i
0030: 21 02 E3 CD 48 96 BC B3 14 F4 42 90 4D 38 5C 78 !...H.....B.M8\x
0040: D3 26 58 .&X
what am I doing wrong?