Cannot change the cipher key in Base64 Decoder

Question

I have a pre-written code which is used to cipher the given plain text or vice-versa .

The class has 3 methods, where in 2 methods can be used for encrypting and decrypting respectively.

public class SqlCipherUtil {

    private Cipher ecipher;
    private Cipher dcipher;

    public String encryptString(String pStrPlainText) {

        try {
            generateKey();
            byte[] utf8 = pStrPlainText.getBytes("UTF8");
            byte[] enc = this.ecipher.doFinal(utf8);
            return new BASE64Encoder().encode(enc);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 

        return null;
    }

    public String decryptString(String pStrCipherText){

        try {
            generateKey();
            byte[] dec = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(pStrCipherText);
            byte[] utf8 = this.dcipher.doFinal(dec);
            return new String(utf8, "UTF8");

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * This method is used to generate the encrypted key.
     */
    private void generateKey() {

        try {
            byte[] decodedStr = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer("rA/LUdBA/hA=");
            SecretKey key = new SecretKeySpec(decodedStr, "DES");
            this.ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES");
            this.dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES");
            this.ecipher.init(1, key);
            this.dcipher.init(2, key);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 
    }
}

The key present in the class cannot be changed to any other key in line byte[] decodedStr = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer("rA/LUdBA/hA=");, and it is giving an exception.

java.security.InvalidKeyException: Invalid key length: 9 bytes
    at com.sun.crypto.provider.DESCipher.engineGetKeySize(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.b(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.a(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.init(DashoA13*..)

I tried out the below code, and I am getting exactly 8 bytes in the array.

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        byte[] decodedStr = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer("rA/LUdBA/hA=");

        for(byte b : decodedStr){
            System.out.print(b);
            System.out.print(" ");
        }
    }

}

Any other combination of the key will make the byte array size more than 8 or less than 7.

What is the concept behind getting the byte array size 8 ?

What should be done to use custom key combination or our custom generated keys ?

Please answer Both the questions.

Answer 1

if your target is encode and decode the string, Use Base64.

    public class PasswordCodecHandler {
        Base64 codec = null;

        public PasswordCodecHandler() {
            codec = new Base64();
        }

        public String encode(String password) {
            byte[] temp;
            String encodedPassword = null;
            temp = codec.encode(password.getBytes());
            encodedPassword = new String(temp);
            return encodedPassword;
        }

        public String decode(byte[] encodedPassword) {
            byte[] temp;
            String decodedPassword;
            temp = codec.decode(encodedPassword);
            decodedPassword = new String(temp);
            return decodedPassword;
        }

        public static void main(String[] args) {
            PasswordCodecHandler passwordCodecHandler = new PasswordCodecHandler();
            String s1 = passwordCodecHandler.encode("password");
            System.out.println(s1);

            String s2 = passwordCodecHandler.encode("admin");
            System.out.println(s2);

            String s3 = passwordCodecHandler.encode("administrator");
            System.out.println(s3);

            String s4 = passwordCodecHandler.encode("123456");
            System.out.println(s4);

        }
    }

For other data type : it can be java.lang.OutOfMemoryError based on the your memory allocation size

    /* Download apache common-io.xxx. jar*/

    public class CodecHandler {
        Base64 codec = null;

        public CodecHandler() {
            codec = new Base64();
        }

        public byte[] encode(byte[] decoded) {
            return codec.encode(decoded);
        }

        public byte[] decode(byte[] encoded) {
            return codec.decode(encoded);
        }

        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
            File file = new File("D:/Test.mp4");
            byte[] fileByteArray = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(file);
            CodecHandler codecHandler = new CodecHandler();
            byte[] encoded = codecHandler.encode(fileByteArray);
            System.out.println("Byte Size : " + encoded.length);
            byte[] decode = codecHandler.decode(encoded);
            FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(new File("C:/Test.mp4"), decode);


        }
    }