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How can we convert the RSA public key from text file into RSA key?

I've a public key. I need to read it, so that it can be used to encrypt the files.

How do we change the public key into rsakey object?

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June 19th, 2011, 06:39 PM

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It depends on the format. Generally these are described in PEM files. The PEMReader class will normally handling them.

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