Encrypt/Decrypt file/stream with DES

This is an example of how to encrypt or decrypt a file or stream with DES. DES in computing refers to the Data Encryption Standard and is supported by Java.

To encrypt or decrypt a file or stream with DES one should perform the following steps:

• Get an instance of a KeyGenerator with DES as algorithm
• Generate a key (SecretKey) with the generator
• Use CipherOutputStream to write to a file
• Use CipherInputStream to read from a file
• Handle exceptions like InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException

These are demonstrated in the code snippet(s) below:

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.spec.AlgorithmParameterSpec;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.CipherInputStream;
import javax.crypto.CipherOutputStream;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;

public class EncryptDecryptFileStreamWithDES {

	private static Cipher ecipher;
	private static Cipher dcipher;

	// 8-byte initialization vector
	private static byte[] iv = {

  (byte)0xB2, (byte)0x12, (byte)0xD5, (byte)0xB2,

  (byte)0x44, (byte)0x21, (byte)0xC3, (byte)0xC3
    };

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		try {

			SecretKey key = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES").generateKey();

			AlgorithmParameterSpec paramSpec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);

			ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");

dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");

ecipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, paramSpec);

dcipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, paramSpec);

encrypt(new FileInputStream("cleartext.txt"), new FileOutputStream("encrypted.dat"));

decrypt(new FileInputStream("encrypted.dat"), new FileOutputStream("cleartext-reversed.txt"));

		}
		catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			System.out.println("File Not Found:" + e.getMessage());
			return;
		}
		catch (InvalidAlgorithmParameterException e) {
			System.out.println("Invalid Alogorithm Parameter:" + e.getMessage());
			return;
		}
		catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
			System.out.println("No Such Algorithm:" + e.getMessage());
			return;
		}
		catch (NoSuchPaddingException e) {
			System.out.println("No Such Padding:" + e.getMessage());
			return;
		}
		catch (InvalidKeyException e) {
			System.out.println("Invalid Key:" + e.getMessage());
			return;
		}

	}

	private static void encrypt(InputStream is, OutputStream os) {

  try {

  	byte[] buf = new byte[1024];

// bytes at this stream are first encoded

  	os = new CipherOutputStream(os, ecipher);

// read in the clear text and write to out to encrypt

int numRead = 0;

while ((numRead = is.read(buf)) >= 0) {

    os.write(buf, 0, numRead);

}

// close all streams

os.close();

  }

  catch (IOException e) {

  	System.out.println("I/O Error:" + e.getMessage());

  }

    }

	private static void decrypt(InputStream is, OutputStream os) {

  try {

  	byte[] buf = new byte[1024];

// bytes read from stream will be decrypted

  	CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(is, dcipher);

// read in the decrypted bytes and write the clear text to out

int numRead = 0;

while ((numRead = cis.read(buf)) >= 0) {

    os.write(buf, 0, numRead);

}

// close all streams

cis.close();

is.close();

os.close();

  }

  catch (IOException e) {

  	System.out.println("I/O Error:" + e.getMessage());

  }

    }

}

This was an example of how to Encrypt/Decrypt file/stream with DES.