Question

How can I encrypt an entire string with AES. The code that I have below only encrypts up to the first space recognized :(. How can I fix this? Thanks

SecretKeySpec key = new SecretKeySpec(salt.getBytes(), "AES");
    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding", "SunJCE");
    cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
    String result = new String(cipher.doFinal(message.getBytes()));
    System.out.println("Encrypted:" + result);

EDIT
OMG I CANT BELIEVE THIS, HOW COULD I MISS THIS 🙁 ITS BECAUSE MY SCANNER WAS TAKING next instead of nextLine… how embarrassing this bugged me all day and only now did i actually think about checking that. Problem solved 🙂 Thanks everyone

Answer 1

I don’t see anything wrong with your code except trying to print an arbitrary byte[] using new String(byte[]). Try this on for size:

public static byte[] encrypt(String message) throws Exception
{
    String salt = "1111111111111111";
    SecretKeySpec key = new SecretKeySpec(salt.getBytes(), "AES");
    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding", "SunJCE");
    cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
    return cipher.doFinal(message.getBytes());
}

public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception
{
    String hello = Arrays.toString(encrypt("hello"));
    System.out.println("hello:" + hello);
    String helloWorld = Arrays.toString(encrypt("hello world"));
    System.out.println("hello world:" + helloWorld);
}

Which prints:

hello:[115, -73, -46, -121, 36, -106, -99, 100, 103, -24, -40, -38, 113, -8, 40, -57]
hello world:[5, 88, -31, 115, 4, 48, -75, 44, 83, 21, 105, -67, 78, -53, -13, -28]

I think we can all agree that those are two different byte arrays.