(Perl) Get EC Public Key from EC Private Key

Demonstrates how to get an EC public key from an EC private key.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# We have an ECC private key...
# The contents of the private key PEM file look like this:

# 	-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
# 	MIGHAgEAMBMGByqGSM49AgEGCCqGSM49AwEHBG0wawIBAQQg3J8q/24D1sEKGdP9
# 	72MGYElLGpw/a56Y3t6pfON3uhShRANCAATlSmoizyhAwoYZAOuFBATl07/1RR54
# 	a1Dzfm16grxJe666AGKR+bSs24hk7TEpaeCTvT8YOOM3l+xKFg7zq6Q9
# 	-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

$privKey = chilkat::CkPrivateKey->new();
$success = $privKey->LoadPemFile("qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-key-pkcs8.pem");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $privKey->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Get the public key.
$pubKey = chilkat::CkPublicKey->new();
$privKey->ToPublicKey($pubKey);

# Save the public key to a PEM file.
$success = $pubKey->SavePemFile(0,"qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-pubkey.pem");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $pubKey->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# The contents of the ECC public key PEM file look like this:

# 	-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
# 	MIIBSzCCAQMGByqGSM49AgEwgfcCAQEwLAYHKoZIzj0BAQIhAP////8AAAABAAAA
# 	AAAAAAAAAAAA////////////////MFsEIP////8AAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA////
# 	///////////8BCBaxjXYqjqT57PrvVV2mIa8ZR0GsMxTsPY7zjw+J9JgSwMVAMSd
# 	NgiG5wSTamZ44ROdJreBn36QBEEEaxfR8uEsQkf4vOblY6RA8ncDfYEt6zOg9KE5
# 	RdiYwpZP40Li/hp/m47n60p8D54WK84zV2sxXs7LtkBoN79R9QIhAP////8AAAAA
# 	//////////+85vqtpxeehPO5ysL8YyVRAgEBA0IABOVKaiLPKEDChhkA64UEBOXT
# 	v/VFHnhrUPN+bXqCvEl7rroAYpH5tKzbiGTtMSlp4JO9Pxg44zeX7EoWDvOrpD0=
# 	-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

print "Success." . "\r\n";