diff --git a/src/crypto/keys.rs b/src/crypto/keys.rs
index 9e7aea5..3a12a7b 100644
--- a/src/crypto/keys.rs
+++ b/src/crypto/keys.rs
@@ -174,6 +174,62 @@ pub struct PublicKey {
 
 
 impl PublicKey {
+    /// Creates an RSA Public Key based on the supplied exponent and modulus.
+    /// 
+    /// See:
+    /// [RFC 4055]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4055
+    /// 
+    /// An RSA Public Key uses the following DER encoded structure inside its
+    /// BitString component:
+    /// 
+    /// ```txt
+    /// RSAPublicKey  ::=  SEQUENCE  {
+    ///     modulus            INTEGER,    -- n
+    ///     publicExponent     INTEGER  }  -- e
+    /// ```
+    pub fn rsa_from_components(
+        modulus: &[u8], // n
+        exponent: &[u8] // e 
+    ) -> Result<Self, bcder::decode::Error> {
+        let modulus = bcder::Unsigned::from_slice(modulus)?;
+        let exponent = bcder::Unsigned::from_slice(exponent)?;
+
+        let pub_key_sequence = bcder::encode::sequence((
+            modulus.encode(),
+            exponent.encode()
+        ));
+
+        Ok(PublicKey {
+            algorithm: PublicKeyFormat::Rsa,
+            bits: BitString::new(
+                0,
+                pub_key_sequence.to_captured(bcder::Mode::Der).into_bytes()
+            ),
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Creates an RSA public key from the key’s bits.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this is _not_ the DER-encoded public key written by, for
+    /// instance, the OpenSSL command line tools. These files contain the
+    /// complete public key including the algorithm and need to be read
+    /// with [`PublicKey::decode`].
+    pub fn rsa_from_bits_bytes(
+        bytes: Bytes
+    ) -> Result<Self, bcder::decode::Error> {
+        Mode::Der.decode(bytes.clone(), |cons| {
+            cons.take_sequence(|cons| {
+                let _ = bcder::Unsigned::take_from(cons)?;
+                let _ = bcder::Unsigned::take_from(cons)?;
+                Ok(())
+            })
+        })?;
+        Ok(PublicKey {
+            algorithm: PublicKeyFormat::Rsa,
+            bits: BitString::new(0, bytes)
+        })
+    }
+    
     /// Returns the algorithm of this public key.
     pub fn algorithm(&self) -> PublicKeyFormat {
         self.algorithm
@@ -394,4 +450,16 @@ mod test {
 
         assert_eq!(pub_key, &de);
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+    #[test]
+    fn rsa_from_public_key_bytes() {
+        let key = PublicKey::decode(
+            include_bytes!("../../test-data/rsa-key.public.der").as_ref(),
+        ).unwrap();
+        assert!(
+            PublicKey::rsa_from_bits_bytes(
+                key.bits_bytes()
+            ).is_ok()
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test-data/rsa-key.private.der b/test-data/rsa-key.private.der
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diff --git a/test-data/rsa-key.public.der b/test-data/rsa-key.public.der
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