Java using AES 256 and 128 Symmetric-key encryption

Question

I am new in cipher technology. I found this code to do Symmetric Encryption.

byte[] key = //... secret sequence of bytes
byte[] dataToSend = ...
Cipher c = C         


        

Answer 1

public class CipherUtils
{
    private static byte[] key = {
            0x74, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x49, 0x73, 0x41, 0x53, 0x65, 0x63, 0x72, 0x65, 0x74, 0x4b, 0x65, 0x79
    };//"thisIsASecretKey";

    public static String encrypt(String strToEncrypt)
    {
        try
        {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            final SecretKeySpec secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey);
            final String encryptedString = Base64.encodeBase64String(cipher.doFinal(strToEncrypt.getBytes()));
            return encryptedString;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
           e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}