Issues with BlowFish Encryption/Decryption (JBoss Encryption)

Question

Here is a problem I am facing with BlowFish encryption/Decryption.

The below code is used for testing BlowFish Encryption/Decryption

// Code below omits comments for Brevity

import javax.crypto.*;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

import java.math.BigInteger;

public class JBoss {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        if ((args.length != 2)
                || !(args[0].equals("-e") | args[0].equals("-d"))) {
            System.out
                    .println("Usage:\n\tjava JBoss <-e|-d> <encrypted_password>");
            return;
        }

        String mode = args[0];

        byte[] kbytes = "jaas is the way".getBytes();
        SecretKeySpec key = new SecretKeySpec(kbytes, "Blowfish");
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Blowfish");

        String out = null;

        if (mode.equals("-e")) {
            String secret = args[1];
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
            byte[] encoding = cipher.doFinal(secret.getBytes());
            out = new BigInteger(encoding).toString(16);
        } else {
            BigInteger secret = new BigInteger(args[1], 16);
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
            byte[] encoding = cipher.doFinal(secret.toByteArray());
            out = new String(encoding);
        }
        System.out.println(out);
    }
}

Now, if I try to encrypt the string

u7mzqw2

I get the value as

-7ccb7ff0c2858a

If I try to decrypt

-7ccb7ff0c2858a

I get the error as below:

    java JBoss -d -7ccb7ff0c2858a
Exception in thread "main" javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 8 when decrypting with padded cipher
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
        at com.sun.crypto.provider.BlowfishCipher.engineDoFinal(DashoA13*..)
        at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(DashoA13*..)
        at JBoss.main(JBoss.java:41)

Entire code is here

It has nothing to do with 7 character length original or non /8=0 encrypted value, if I am not mistaken, as the below one works

java JBoss -e qwerty

-40e961f375c2eee6

java JBoss -d -40e961f375c2eee6

qwerty

What am I missing??

Answer 1

Here is my observation : I modified the code a little bit adding few sops with individual bytes and the corresponding hexadecimal value.

Input: asdfda

16::10

60::3c

105::69

57::39

-60::-3c

110::6e

19::13

-52::-34

Encoded Value:103c6939c46e13cc

As you can see the items on the left are the bytes and on the right we have the individual biginteger with radix 16 values, and at the bottom we have the encoded value. You might seeing a big pattern matching. except the values with -tive. like -60 corresponds value -3c , but as with 1 byte consersion the value becames c4 ( see yourslef).

Now I tested with the value to encrypt as u7mzqw2, lets see what happens.

Input: u7mzqw2

-1::-1

-125::-7d

52::34

-128::-80

15::f

61::3d

122::7a

118::76

Encoded value:-7ccb7ff0c2858a

Now do you see the pattern matching, now you won't , why not ? lets see, well -1 whose hexadecimal should be -1 ? ??? , no it is 0XFF, now can we represent 0xFF in Byte ? No, we can't. read yourself Byte and -1

Update: what puzzled me was how these encoding was evaluated ? Still looking , help me identify this