Re: PGPPublicKeyRing from PGPSecretKeyRing

There's code for this in PGPKeyRingGenerator - actually you might find
it does the job. I'd be interested to know if it doesn't.

Regards,

David

On 10/06/18 20:29, Paul Schaub wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently working with BouncyCastle on an OpenPGP Java project. For
> that reason I have to create OpenPGP key pairs for the user.
>
> I created a builder that returns a PGPSecretKeyRing as result of the
> build() method. Now for convenience I would like to be able to easily
> retrieve the PGPPublicKeyRing from the secret key ring.
>
> For now the only way to accomplish that that I came across is, to
> serialize the PGPSecretKeyRing to a byte array and deserialize it into a
> PGPPublicKeyRing. Same procedure applies if I want to convert a key ring
> into a key ring collection. However, this appears a little inefficient
> to me.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Greetings
> Paul
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