Cannot create RSA PublicKey from PEM format

[ZeCarlosCoutinho]

When I try to create an RSA PublicKey from the PEM format (PKCS1, I believe), it throws the following error: Error: Not a public key. at Object.createPublicKey

My code is the following:

var publicKey = ursa.createPublicKey(Buffer.from("-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\n"+
        "MIIBCgKCAQEAt6j2fSP9MFbqninmlzSG1Wf7veRDN4ttyYWredHorXhRYkEGk+HW\n"+
        "rlLGMP7uLq9wirxuUct70tlFwO0kBpS/9Wj9MlC3PutYHr5k5/c0HAUcOI/sIl+8\n"+
        "uLcZS7zs+IHNOSt+FxoaQdgvfvxY1LkN90ehd+7DAFO23HPspoAaeHf85W8x+2az\n"+
        "mUQ17WdFsParHSMeYdur6+h6NKTava/vLSKlN5/K6s7KvF1IU4eqGAesvRhil3sR\n"+
        "AnDwvDucavdZWAfW747n5iUbuS5o3PpBquMwVSXHU0QQqHSjkQPKoWtrxphgM3HP\n"+
        "erLrRPiya0O8kphxEbro7wVaFUa0VjP36wIDAQAB\n"+
        "-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----"
    ));

When doing the same for PrivateKey, using the same format and createPrivateKey(Buffer.from("<PRIVATEKEY>")) method, it works. (I also tried using another key from somewhere else, and there was no error, but the key was in a different format (PKCS8, I believe))

Why does the Private Key work, and the Public key doesn't?

[bartlewis]

Did you ever solve this @ZeCarlosCoutinho ?

[hugo-marques-m3]

You probably found this out already sinde this is very old but you need to use \r in the middle lines and \r\n before the last line. As in:

var publicKey = ursa.createPublicKey(Buffer.from("-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----\n"+
        "MIIBCgKCAQEAt6j2fSP9MFbqninmlzSG1Wf7veRDN4ttyYWredHorXhRYkEGk+HW\r"+
        "rlLGMP7uLq9wirxuUct70tlFwO0kBpS/9Wj9MlC3PutYHr5k5/c0HAUcOI/sIl+8\r"+
        "uLcZS7zs+IHNOSt+FxoaQdgvfvxY1LkN90ehd+7DAFO23HPspoAaeHf85W8x+2az\r"+
        "mUQ17WdFsParHSMeYdur6+h6NKTava/vLSKlN5/K6s7KvF1IU4eqGAesvRhil3sR\r"+
        "AnDwvDucavdZWAfW747n5iUbuS5o3PpBquMwVSXHU0QQqHSjkQPKoWtrxphgM3HP\r"+
        "erLrRPiya0O8kphxEbro7wVaFUa0VjP36wIDAQAB\r\n"+
        "-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----"
    ));