Using java to encrypt integers

Question

I\'m trying to encrypt some integers in java using java.security and javax.crypto.

The problem seems to be that the Cipher class only encrypts byte arrays. I can\'t d

Answer 1

create a 4-byte array and copy the int to the array in 4 steps, with bitwise ANDs and bitshifting, like Paulo said.

But remember that block algorithms such as AES and DES work with 8 or 16 byte blocks so you will need to pad the array to what the algorithm needs. Maybe leave the first 4 bytes of an 8-byte array as 0's, and the other 4 bytes contain the integer.