3DES Encryption in Java and DES Encryption in Java
Here is a small post with just code to do 3DES (Triple DES) and DES Encryption in Java. You can simply copy/paste it in a Class you call Encrypter and it's ready to use. Simply need to pass the key and the IV as arguments to the public constructor. No more talking, here is the code.
3DES Encryption
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.spec.KeySpec;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory;
import javax.crypto.spec.DESedeKeySpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
public class Encrypter {
private KeySpec keySpec;
private SecretKey key;
private IvParameterSpec iv;
public Encrypter(String keyString, String ivString) {
try {
final MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("md5");
final byte[] digestOfPassword = md.digest(Base64.decodeBase64(keyString.getBytes("utf-8")));
final byte[] keyBytes = Arrays.copyOf(digestOfPassword, 24);
for (int j = 0, k = 16; j < 8;) {
keyBytes[k++] = keyBytes[j++];
}
keySpec = new DESedeKeySpec(keyBytes);
key = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("DESede").generateSecret(keySpec);
iv = new IvParameterSpec(ivString.getBytes());
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public String encrypt(String value) {
try {
Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("DESede/CBC/PKCS5Padding","SunJCE");
ecipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, iv);
if(value==null)
return null;
// Encode the string into bytes using utf-8
byte[] utf8 = value.getBytes("UTF8");
// Encrypt
byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal(utf8);
// Encode bytes to base64 to get a string
return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(enc),"UTF-8");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
public String decrypt(String value) {
try {
Cipher dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("DESede/CBC/PKCS5Padding","SunJCE");
dcipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, iv);
if(value==null)
return null;
// Decode base64 to get bytes
byte[] dec = Base64.decodeBase64(value.getBytes());
// Decrypt
byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);
// Decode using utf-8
return new String(utf8, "UTF8");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}
And that's it for the 3DES encryption.
DES Encryption
If you want to do DES encryption rather than 3DES encryption. There is not much to change. You need to remove the following:
final MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("md5");
final byte[] digestOfPassword = md.digest(Base64.decodeBase64(keyString.getBytes("utf-8")));
final byte[] keyBytes = Arrays.copyOf(digestOfPassword, 24);
for (int j = 0, k = 16; j < 8;) {
keyBytes[k++] = keyBytes[j++];
}
Then you replace:
keySpec = new DESedeKeySpec(keyBytes);
key = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("DESede").generateSecret(keySpec);
by:
keySpec = new DESKeySpec(password.getBytes("utf-8"));
key = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("DES").generateSecret(keySpec);
And finally when you instantiate Cipher, instead of:
Cipher.getInstance("DESede/CBC/PKCS5Padding","SunJCE");
You have:
Cipher.getInstance("DES/CFB/NoPadding","SunJCE");
Done!
Conclusion
We have seen in this post how to do 3DES encryption/decryption as well as DES encryption/decryption. As you can see, it is pretty easy. If you have questions or you think something is not correct in the code, don't hesitate to leave a comment. For more information regarding Triple DES and DES algorithm, go check out wikipedia for 3DES (Triple DES) and DES which stands for Data Encryption Standard.
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