How to find the matching curve name from an ECPublicKey

Question

Currently i\'m updating my x.509 certificate library to support ECC. Most of the builders that are implemented take a publicKey and derive the algorithm and such from the key. I

Answer 1

I think i've found a valid solution using the EC5Util class for the jre type specifications. All of the double class instances with the same name make it a bit messy, however the functions are now accessible and useable.

public static final String deriveCurveName(org.bouncycastle.jce.spec.ECParameterSpec ecParameterSpec) throws GeneralSecurityException{
    for (@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
           Enumeration names = ECNamedCurveTable.getNames(); names.hasMoreElements();){
        final String name = (String)names.nextElement();

        final X9ECParameters params = ECNamedCurveTable.getByName(name);

        if (params.getN().equals(ecParameterSpec.getN())
            && params.getH().equals(ecParameterSpec.getH())
            && params.getCurve().equals(ecParameterSpec.getCurve())
            && params.getG().equals(ecParameterSpec.getG())){
            return name;
        }
    }

    throw new GeneralSecurityException("Could not find name for curve");
}

public static final String deriveCurveName(PublicKey publicKey) throws GeneralSecurityException{
    if(publicKey instanceof java.security.interfaces.ECPublicKey){
        final java.security.interfaces.ECPublicKey pk = (java.security.interfaces.ECPublicKey) publicKey;
        final ECParameterSpec params = pk.getParams();
        return deriveCurveName(EC5Util.convertSpec(params, false));
    } else if(publicKey instanceof org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPublicKey){
        final org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPublicKey pk = (org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPublicKey) publicKey;
        return deriveCurveName(pk.getParameters());
    } else throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can only be used with instances of ECPublicKey (either jce or bc implementation)");
}

public static final String deriveCurveName(PrivateKey privateKey) throws GeneralSecurityException{
    if(privateKey instanceof java.security.interfaces.ECPrivateKey){
        final java.security.interfaces.ECPrivateKey pk = (java.security.interfaces.ECPrivateKey) privateKey;
        final ECParameterSpec params = pk.getParams();
        return deriveCurveName(EC5Util.convertSpec(params, false));
    } else if(privateKey instanceof org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPrivateKey){
        final org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPrivateKey pk = (org.bouncycastle.jce.interfaces.ECPrivateKey) privateKey;
        return deriveCurveName(pk.getParameters());
    } else throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can only be used with instances of ECPrivateKey (either jce or bc implementation)");
}