Java - asymmetric encryption of traffic with pre-shared public keys and without trust store hassles?

I would agree with the comments that SSL is a decent way to go, but to answer your direct question, the scheme you described is fairly simple and doesn't appear to give away any secrets. Here's an implementation of the RSA portion of the client, based on a hard-coded public key.

Although you can use lower-level cryptographic functions by building your PublicKey and using Cipher, it's worth considering using JSSE: it will provide all that within the context of sockets. In addition, the encryption provided by SSL/TLS is done via shared keys negotiated during the handshake (amongst other things, it's faster than asymmetric crypto).

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