Trying to understand Java RSA key size

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Published on 2010-05-27T13:28:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 13:31 UTC
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The key generator was initilized with a size of 1024, so why the printed sizes are 635 and 162?

import java.security.KeyPair;
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.NoSuchProviderException;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateKey;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPublicKey;

public class TEST {

    public static KeyPair generateKeyPair() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchProviderException {
    KeyPairGenerator keyPairGenerator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA", "BC");
    keyPairGenerator.initialize(1024);
    return keyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    KeyPair keyPair = generateKeyPair();
    RSAPrivateKey privateKey = (RSAPrivateKey) keyPair.getPrivate();
    RSAPublicKey publicKey = (RSAPublicKey) keyPair.getPublic();

    System.out.println("Size = " + privateKey.getEncoded().length);
    System.out.println("Size = " + publicKey.getEncoded().length);

    }

}

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