Re: SubjectKeyIdentifier construction in BC1.6

David Hook <dgh-rTAZ0PM/[email protected]> Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:46:28 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.bouncy-castle.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You need to use the same approach as
X509ExtensionUtils.calculateIdentifier() in the bcpkix package.

Regards,

David

On 19/2/19 3:47 am, Usha Nayak wrote:
> Hello
>
> We are planning to move to BouncyCastle 1.6 version
> (bcprov-jdk15on-161.jar). At the moment, we are  not planning to use
> bkpkix-jdk15on-161.jar.
>
> In our codebase, we were constructing SKI in the following way :
> new SubjectKeyIdentifier( SubjectPublicKeyInfo )  -- 
>
> Since, this constructor  longer exists in 1.6, We were thinking of
> constructing SubjectKeyIdentifier with the byte[] :
> new  SubjectKeyIdentifier( SubjectPublicKeyInfo.getEncoded() )  
>
> We are unsure though if this is the right way to generate SKI?
>
> Please do clarify this issue ?
>
> Thanks..