CreateKey throws NullPointerException on empty byte array

[loosebazooka]

  @Test
  void test() throws IOException {
    PublicKeyFactory.createKey(new byte[0]);
  }

The root cause of this appears to be in ASN1Primitive#fromByteArray(byte[] data) where the ASN1inputstream immediately returns -1 on read() and so the call to readObject() return null.

This is a bit unexpected as the null comes from deeper in the system. The input itself is not null. I don't have a good suggestion right now on the correct behavior. Perhaps it should throw an IOException?

[dghgit]

This should be dealt with in BC 1.73. Thanks for raising the issue with us.

[dghgit]

Fixed in 1.73.