How to convert a public key from a JWK into PEM for OpenSSL?

I developed a a PHP class that is able to convert public/private keys from JWK to PEM (and vice versa).

You will find that class here.

Basically, you have to decode each component from Base64UrlSafe to a binary string and assemble all of them according to the ASN.1 Structure described in the RFC3447.

Nevertheless, I recommend you to use a dedicated library/tool for that to ease your work. With my PHP library, your code will looks like:

use  Jose\KeyConverter\RSAKey;
$key = new RSAKey([
    "kty" => "RSA",
    "n"   => "oahUIoWw0K0usKNuOR6H4wkf4oBUXHTxRvgb48E-BVvxkeDNjbC4he8rUWcJoZmds2h7M70imEVhRU5djINXtqllXI4DFqcI1DgjT9LewND8MW2Krf3Spsk_ZkoFnilakGygTwpZ3uesH-PFABNIUYpOiN15dsQRkgr0vEhxN92i2asbOenSZeyaxziK72UwxrrKoExv6kc5twXTq4h-QChLOln0_mtUZwfsRaMStPs6mS6XrgxnxbWhojf663tuEQueGC-FCMfra36C9knDFGzKsNa7LZK2djYgyD3JR_MB_4NUJW_TqOQtwHYbxevoJArm-L5StowjzGy-_bq6Gw",
    "e"   => "AQAB",
    "d"   => "kLdtIj6GbDks_ApCSTYQtelcNttlKiOyPzMrXHeI-yk1F7-kpDxY4-WY5NWV5KntaEeXS1j82E375xxhWMHXyvjYecPT9fpwR_M9gV8n9Hrh2anTpTD93Dt62ypW3yDsJzBnTnrYu1iwWRgBKrEYY46qAZIrA2xAwnm2X7uGR1hghkqDp0Vqj3kbSCz1XyfCs6_LehBwtxHIyh8Ripy40p24moOAbgxVw3rxT_vlt3UVe4WO3JkJOzlpUf-KTVI2Ptgm-dARxTEtE-id-4OJr0h-K-VFs3VSndVTIznSxfyrj8ILL6MG_Uv8YAu7VILSB3lOW085-4qE3DzgrTjgyQ",
    "p"   => "1r52Xk46c-LsfB5P442p7atdPUrxQSy4mti_tZI3Mgf2EuFVbUoDBvaRQ-SWxkbkmoEzL7JXroSBjSrK3YIQgYdMgyAEPTPjXv_hI2_1eTSPVZfzL0lffNn03IXqWF5MDFuoUYE0hzb2vhrlN_rKrbfDIwUbTrjjgieRbwC6Cl0",
    "q"   => "wLb35x7hmQWZsWJmB_vle87ihgZ19S8lBEROLIsZG4ayZVe9Hi9gDVCOBmUDdaDYVTSNx_8Fyw1YYa9XGrGnDew00J28cRUoeBB_jKI1oma0Orv1T9aXIWxKwd4gvxFImOWr3QRL9KEBRzk2RatUBnmDZJTIAfwTs0g68UZHvtc",
    "dp"  => "ZK-YwE7diUh0qR1tR7w8WHtolDx3MZ_OTowiFvgfeQ3SiresXjm9gZ5KLhMXvo-uz-KUJWDxS5pFQ_M0evdo1dKiRTjVw_x4NyqyXPM5nULPkcpU827rnpZzAJKpdhWAgqrXGKAECQH0Xt4taznjnd_zVpAmZZq60WPMBMfKcuE",
    "dq"  => "Dq0gfgJ1DdFGXiLvQEZnuKEN0UUmsJBxkjydc3j4ZYdBiMRAy86x0vHCjywcMlYYg4yoC4YZa9hNVcsjqA3FeiL19rk8g6Qn29Tt0cj8qqyFpz9vNDBUfCAiJVeESOjJDZPYHdHY8v1b-o-Z2X5tvLx-TCekf7oxyeKDUqKWjis",
    "qi"  => "VIMpMYbPf47dT1w_zDUXfPimsSegnMOA1zTaX7aGk_8urY6R8-ZW1FxU7AlWAyLWybqq6t16VFd7hQd0y6flUK4SlOydB61gwanOsXGOAOv82cHq0E3eL4HrtZkUuKvnPrMnsUUFlfUdybVzxyjz9JF_XyaY14ardLSjf4L_FNY",
]);
$pem = $key->toPEM();

So the key that you posted is a simple asn sequence of a a public key and the public exponent. It looks something like this:

SEQUENCE ::= {
    n Integer,
    e Integer
}

OpenSSL doesn't like that as-is because it's missing a few other things, like an ObjectIdenifier so that openssl knows what algorithm the key is for.

The quick way to fix this is to also put in the -RSAPublicKey_in option, so the full command will look something like this:

openssl rsa -inform pem -in FILEPATH.pem -pubin -pubout -RSAPublicKey_in

and change the header of the file back to include "RSA":

-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

as well as the footer:

-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

This will also output it in to a "normal" public key format that includes the missing ObjectIdentifier.

Note: I'm not sure what the version requirement for -RSAPublicKey_in are, but I was using OpenSSL 1.1.0.