Easy way to Encrypt/Decrypt string in Android

Question

My question is how to encrypt a String:

String AndroidId;

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Answer 1

You can use Cipher for this.

This class provides the functionality of a cryptographic cipher for encryption and decryption. It forms the core of the Java Cryptographic Extension (JCE) framework.

Sample of encryption and decryption:

public static SecretKey generateKey() 
    throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException 
{ 
    return secret = new SecretKeySpec(password.getBytes(), "AES"); 
}

public static byte[] encryptMsg(String message, SecretKey secret)
    throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidParameterSpecException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, UnsupportedEncodingException 
{ 
   /* Encrypt the message. */
   Cipher cipher = null; 
   cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
   cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secret); 
   byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(message.getBytes("UTF-8")); 
   return cipherText; 
}

public static String decryptMsg(byte[] cipherText, SecretKey secret) 
    throws NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidParameterSpecException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, InvalidKeyException, BadPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, UnsupportedEncodingException 
{
    /* Decrypt the message, given derived encContentValues and initialization vector. */
    Cipher cipher = null;
    cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
    cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secret); 
    String decryptString = new String(cipher.doFinal(cipherText), "UTF-8");
    return decryptString; 
}

To encrypt:

SecretKey secret = generateKey();
EncUtil.encryptMsg(String toEncrypt, secret))

To decrypt:

EncUtil.decryptMsg(byte[] toDecrypt, secret))