Question

I import an XML file as a byte array to the project

RandomAccessFile rnd = new RandomAccessFile(filePath, "r");
byte[] fileData = new byte[(int) rnd.length()];
rnd.read(fileData);

I encrypted the array using java.crypto

Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DESede/CBC/PKCS5Padding");

byte[] encypted = new byte[cipher.getOutputSize(fileData.length)];
int len = cipher.update(fileData, 0, fileData.length, encypted, 0);
len += cipher.doFinal(encypted, len);

When I decrypt the byte array and print it using

System.out.println(new String(decrypted, "UTF-8"));

I got the XML file but there were some unkown characters at the end (they are only at the end). Is there any way I can remove this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

see a similar question here, the answer though is what might be very relavent to your situation:

1.If you don’t know what padding was used to encrypt, then decrypt with
‘no padding’ set. That will decrypt everything, including the padding,
and won’t throw an error because of mismatched padding.

2.When you have decrypted the cyphertext, have a look at the last block
of the output and see what padding was used. Different paddings leave
different byte patterns, so it is usually easy enough to tell.

3.Set your decryption method to expect the correct type of padding, and
it will be automatically removed for you.

and incase this is relavant to you here is a link on padding patterns etc: Padding Wikipedia

This over here is also a very good tutorial for encrypting using DES: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.crypto/desstring.html and here is for PBE in DES:
PBE with HMAC(SHA1) and DES(EDE)