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invalid key format error on generating private key
See original GitHub issueIn which file did you encounter the issue?
java-docs-samples/iot/api-client/mqtt_example/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/iot/examples/MqttExample.java
Describe the issue
The command I used to generate rsa private key and certificate is this:
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout rsa_private.pem -nodes -out rsa_cert.pem -subj "/CN=unused"
In createJwtRsa method, the private key file which is working for the Python MQTT sample, giving the following error:
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: java.security.InvalidKeyException: invalid key format
at sun.security.rsa.RSAKeyFactory.engineGeneratePrivate(RSAKeyFactory.java:217)
at java.security.KeyFactory.generatePrivate(KeyFactory.java:372)
Caused by: java.security.InvalidKeyException: invalid key format
at sun.security.pkcs.PKCS8Key.decode(PKCS8Key.java:330)
at sun.security.pkcs.PKCS8Key.decode(PKCS8Key.java:356)
at sun.security.rsa.RSAPrivateCrtKeyImpl.<init>(RSAPrivateCrtKeyImpl.java:91)
at sun.security.rsa.RSAPrivateCrtKeyImpl.newKey(RSAPrivateCrtKeyImpl.java:75)
at sun.security.rsa.RSAKeyFactory.generatePrivate(RSAKeyFactory.java:316)
at sun.security.rsa.RSAKeyFactory.engineGeneratePrivate(RSAKeyFactory.java:213)
... 3 more
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