not decrypting what I crypted

Question

I have a weird problem...

Basing my solution on Decrypting a hardcoded file as byte[]

So, I wrote a small Cypher class to help out with crypting/decrypting..

Answer 1

I think the problem is here:

//opentext
System.out.println("checking PEM...");
crypted = Base64Coder.encode(getBytesFromFile(cryptoPEM));

Previously, you wrote char[] to the file, but now you're reading a byte[] from the file and re-encoding in base64. The file's contents should already be base64-encoded!

You need a new function called getCharsFromFile that returns char[] or String and pass that directly to decrypt2.