OpenSAML user discussion

["Paul Hethmon" <>]

Assuming I have a valid metadata file with a public key as a <ds:X509Certificate>, what's the method for getting that into a usable Java object for validating signatures? I can dig down and get to it ok as XML objects, but when it comes to actually taking the BASE64 encoded value and coverting it to a PublicKey object, I can't seem to get it right. I'm pretty sure I'm failing in what I'm doing because of line breaks being lost in the conversion resulting in an invalid byte encoding. I get this using the KeyInfoHelper class as well as manipulating it on my own. In all cases,  I end up with an InvalidKeySpecException. Is there a helper class to handle the encoding in the XML metadata format?

 

thanks,

 

Paul

 

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