Tutorial of ECDSA algorithm to sign a string

Question

Can you help me to find a simple tutorial of how sign a string using ECDSA algorithm in java. But without using any third-party libraries like bouncycastle. Just JDK 7. I found

Answer 1

class ECCCipher {
    @Override
    public byte[] sign(PrivateKey privateKey, String message) throws Exception {
        Signature signature = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withECDSA");
        signature.initSign(privateKey);

        signature.update(message.getBytes());

        return signature.sign();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean verify(PublicKey publicKey, byte[] signed, String message) throws Exception {
        Signature signature = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withECDSA");
        signature.initVerify(publicKey);

        signature.update(message.getBytes());

        return signature.verify(signed);
    }
}

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public class ECCCipherTest {

private final KeyPairGenerator keygen;

public ECCCipherTest() throws NoSuchProviderException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException {
    Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
    this.keygen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");
    keygen.initialize(new ECGenParameterSpec("brainpoolP384r1"));
}

@Test
public void ECC_CipherTest_1() throws Exception {
    String message = "hello world";

    ICipher cipher = new ECCCipher();
    KeyPair keyPair = keygen.generateKeyPair();

    byte[] encrypted = cipher.sign(keyPair.getPrivate(), message);

    Assert.assertTrue(cipher.verify(keyPair.getPublic(), encrypted, message));
}

}

this is a small code snippet from my project. it works for me. I have included one junit test as well; hopefully this helps.

just in case anyone wonders how we load the private key and pubkey: (note: privKey is the byte array representing the BigInteger in java, and the pubKey is the curve point in binary format)

    @Override
public PrivateKey generatePrivateKey(byte[] keyBin) throws InvalidKeySpecException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
    ECNamedCurveParameterSpec spec = ECNamedCurveTable.getParameterSpec("secp256k1");
    KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("ECDSA", new BouncyCastleProvider());
    ECNamedCurveSpec params = new ECNamedCurveSpec("secp256k1", spec.getCurve(), spec.getG(), spec.getN());
    ECPrivateKeySpec privKeySpec = new ECPrivateKeySpec(new BigInteger(keyBin), params);
    return kf.generatePrivate(privKeySpec);
}

@Override
public PublicKey generatePublicKey(byte[] keyBin) throws InvalidKeySpecException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
    ECNamedCurveParameterSpec spec = ECNamedCurveTable.getParameterSpec("secp256k1");
    KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("ECDSA", new BouncyCastleProvider());
    ECNamedCurveSpec params = new ECNamedCurveSpec("secp256k1", spec.getCurve(), spec.getG(), spec.getN());
    ECPoint point =  ECPointUtil.decodePoint(params.getCurve(), keyBin);
    ECPublicKeySpec pubKeySpec = new ECPublicKeySpec(point, params);
    return kf.generatePublic(pubKeySpec);
}