AES Encryption IV's
I am using this below (E.1) for my application, there is obviously a huge glaring security hole in this that I recognize and understand. I have grown interested in encryption and want to understand it better, I need to generate a random key along with an IV but am unsure how to do so properly Can someone explain to me whom is familiar with AES encryption how this works (IV & KEY) So I am better able to understand in the future and can apply my knowledge, essentially I just want to make the code more secure, thank you. (E.1) byte[] key = "mykey".getBytes("UTF-8"); private byte[] getKeyBytes