I have generated an ECDSA signature in Java and I would like to get the R and S values from it. It is my understanding that the signature I have generated is DER encoded. Can someone please provide me with some Java code (maybe using Bouncy Castle) to retrieve the R and S values as BigIntegers?
Note: In case it helps, I generated the signature using a built in provider via the JCE's Signature class and the signature lengths for my P_256 EC key pair hover between 70 and 72 bytes usually.
I was able to solve this myself. In case it helps anyone here is how I did it (most exception handling has been stripped for readability):
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.KeyPair;
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
import java.security.Security;
import java.security.Signature;
import java.security.spec.ECGenParameterSpec;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1InputStream;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Integer;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Sequence;
import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;
public class DecodeEcdsaSignature {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
byte[] signature = getSignature();
ASN1Primitive asn1 = toAsn1Primitive(signature);
if (asn1 instanceof ASN1Sequence) {
ASN1Sequence asn1Sequence = (ASN1Sequence) asn1;
ASN1Encodable[] asn1Encodables = asn1Sequence.toArray();
for (ASN1Encodable asn1Encodable : asn1Encodables) {
ASN1Primitive asn1Primitive = asn1Encodable.toASN1Primitive();
if (asn1Primitive instanceof ASN1Integer) {
ASN1Integer asn1Integer = (ASN1Integer) asn1Primitive;
BigInteger integer = asn1Integer.getValue();
System.out.println(integer.toString());
}
}
}
}
private static ASN1Primitive toAsn1Primitive(byte[] data) throws Exception
{
try (ByteArrayInputStream inStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
ASN1InputStream asnInputStream = new ASN1InputStream(inStream);)
{
return asnInputStream.readObject();
}
}
private static byte[] getSignature() throws Exception {
KeyPairGenerator keyPairGenerator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("ECDSA");
ECGenParameterSpec ecParameterSpec = new ECGenParameterSpec("P-256");
keyPairGenerator.initialize(ecParameterSpec);
KeyPair keyPair = keyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair();
Signature signature = Signature.getInstance("SHA256withECDSA");
signature.initSign(keyPair.getPrivate());
signature.update("message to sign".getBytes("UTF-8"));
return signature.sign();
}
}