Question

I have a certificate in der format, from it with this command I generate a public key:

openssl x509 -inform der -in ejbcacert.cer -noout -pubkey > pub1key.pub

Which results in this:

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQC7vbqajDw4o6gJy8UtmIbkcpnk
O3Kwc4qsEnSZp/TR+fQi62F79RHWmwKOtFmwteURgLbj7D/WGuNLGOfa/2vse3G2
eHnHl5CB8ruRX9fBl/KgwCVr2JaEuUm66bBQeP5XeBotdR4cvX38uPYivCDdPjJ1
QWPdspTBKcxeFbccDwIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

How can I obtain a public key like this? Either from certificate or
from this public key?

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgQC7vbqajDw4o6gJy8UtmIbkcpnkO3Kwc4qsEnSZp/TR+fQi62F79RHWmwKOtFmwteURgLbj7D/WGuNLGOfa/2vse3G2eHnHl5CB8ruRX9fBl/KgwCVr2JaEuUm66bBQeP5XeBotdR4cvX38uPYivCDdPjJ1QWPdspTBKcxeFbccDw==

This was obtained with this command:

ssh-keygen -y -f private_key1.pem > public_key1.pub

Answer 1

To answer my own question, after posting on openssl mailing list got this:

Here is C code to convert from an OpenSSL public key to an OpenSSH public key.
You can grab the code from this link and compile it yourself:

static unsigned char pSshHeader[11] = { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07, 0x73, 0x73, 0x68, 0x2D, 0x72, 0x73, 0x61};

static int SshEncodeBuffer(unsigned char *pEncoding, int bufferLen, unsigned char* pBuffer)
{
   int adjustedLen = bufferLen, index;
   if (*pBuffer & 0x80)
   {
      adjustedLen++;
      pEncoding[4] = 0;
      index = 5;
   }
   else
   {
      index = 4;
   }
   pEncoding[0] = (unsigned char) (adjustedLen >> 24);
   pEncoding[1] = (unsigned char) (adjustedLen >> 16);
   pEncoding[2] = (unsigned char) (adjustedLen >>  8);
   pEncoding[3] = (unsigned char) (adjustedLen      );
   memcpy(&pEncoding[index], pBuffer, bufferLen);
   return index + bufferLen;
}

int main(int argc, char**  argv)
{
   int iRet = 0;
   int nLen = 0, eLen = 0;
   int encodingLength = 0;
   int index = 0;
   unsigned char *nBytes = NULL, *eBytes = NULL;
   unsigned char* pEncoding = NULL;
   FILE* pFile = NULL;
   EVP_PKEY *pPubKey = NULL;
   RSA* pRsa = NULL;
   BIO *bio, *b64;

   ERR_load_crypto_strings(); 
   OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();

   if (argc != 3)
   {
      printf("usage: %s public_key_file_name ssh_key_description\n", argv[0]);
      iRet = 1;
      goto error;
   }

   pFile = fopen(argv[1], "rt");
   if (!pFile)
   {
      printf("Failed to open the given file\n");
      iRet = 2;
      goto error;
   }

   pPubKey = PEM_read_PUBKEY(pFile, NULL, NULL, NULL);
   if (!pPubKey)
   {
      printf("Unable to decode public key from the given file: %s\n", ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(), NULL));
      iRet = 3;
      goto error;
   }

   if (EVP_PKEY_type(pPubKey->type) != EVP_PKEY_RSA)
   {
      printf("Only RSA public keys are currently supported\n");
      iRet = 4;
      goto error;
   }

   pRsa = EVP_PKEY_get1_RSA(pPubKey);
   if (!pRsa)
   {
      printf("Failed to get RSA public key : %s\n", ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(), NULL));
      iRet = 5;
      goto error;
   }

   // reading the modulus
   nLen = BN_num_bytes(pRsa->n);
   nBytes = (unsigned char*) malloc(nLen);
   BN_bn2bin(pRsa->n, nBytes);

   // reading the public exponent
   eLen = BN_num_bytes(pRsa->e);
   eBytes = (unsigned char*) malloc(eLen);
   BN_bn2bin(pRsa->e, eBytes);

   encodingLength = 11 + 4 + eLen + 4 + nLen;
   // correct depending on the MSB of e and N
   if (eBytes[0] & 0x80)
      encodingLength++;
   if (nBytes[0] & 0x80)
      encodingLength++;

   pEncoding = (unsigned char*) malloc(encodingLength);
   memcpy(pEncoding, pSshHeader, 11);

   index = SshEncodeBuffer(&pEncoding[11], eLen, eBytes);
   index = SshEncodeBuffer(&pEncoding[11 + index], nLen, nBytes);

   b64 = BIO_new(BIO_f_base64());
   BIO_set_flags(b64, BIO_FLAGS_BASE64_NO_NL);
   bio = BIO_new_fp(stdout, BIO_NOCLOSE);
   BIO_printf(bio, "ssh-rsa ");
   bio = BIO_push(b64, bio);
   BIO_write(bio, pEncoding, encodingLength);
   BIO_flush(bio);
   bio = BIO_pop(b64);
   BIO_printf(bio, " %s\n", argv[2]);
   BIO_flush(bio);
   BIO_free_all(bio);
   BIO_free(b64);

error:
   if (pFile)
      fclose(pFile);
   if (pRsa)
      RSA_free(pRsa);
   if (pPubKey)
      EVP_PKEY_free(pPubKey);
   if (nBytes)
      free(nBytes);
   if (eBytes)
      free(eBytes);
   if (pEncoding)
      free(pEncoding);

   EVP_cleanup();
   ERR_free_strings();
   return iRet;
}