export individual public or private key?

[franks42]

When I generate a key-pair with:

k = jwk.JWK(generate='EC', crv='P-256', use='enc', kid='9876543210')

I'd like to "export" the public key in json format to communicate it to other parties. My understanding from reading the example code and API was, that I could possibly do that with:

pk = k.get_op_key('encrypt')
pk_json = pk.export()

but that doesn't work: "AttributeError: '_EllipticCurvePublicKey' object has no attribute 'export'"

Couldn't find any explicit example of this in the test code. Maybe I am missing something?
Thanks for the help - Frank.

[simo5]

k.export_public() is not ok ?

[franks42]

k.export_public() is ok.

Thanks - should learn not to trust the doc and look at the code before asking Qs ;-)

[simo5]

If it is not doc-ed that's a bug ... indeed it is.

[simo5]

Reopening, will use to track doc bug.

[franks42]

Appreciate the near instant, real-time support!

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:26 AM, simo5 notifications@github.com wrote:

Reopening, will use to track doc bug.

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[franks42]

Not sure if it's a bug, but the exported public key lost the kid-attribute that was set on the generated key-pair.

[simo5]

It's a bug.

[simo5]

Fixed with 9d52a18
Also the "stable" docs had export_public() documentation, but the default docs were going to the "latest" tag on readthedocs, but it is unclear why that tag had no documentation. Will investigate and fix that.
Thanks a lot for reporting these issues.