Re: Creating an EC Public Key using Named Curves

[Michael StJohns]

At 03:44 PM 10/8/2013, Michael StJohns wrote:



This fails using bouncy castle.  There is no "EC" factory for 
AlgorithmParameters for BC 1.49.

Mike


>I'm going to try out this construct on BouncyCastle and see if it works for 
>their curve tables.
>
>>>>> 
>>>>> However you can generate named curves using the SunEC provider and the 
>>>>> ECParameterSpec class.
>>>>> For example,
>>>>> 
>>>>>       AlgorithmParameters parameters = 
>>>>> AlgorithmParameters.getInstance("EC", "SunEC");
>>>>>       parameters.init(new ECGenParameterSpec("secp256r1"));
>>>>>       ECParameterSpec ecParameters = 
>>>>> parameters.getParameterSpec(ECParameterSpec.class);