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Password-based Encryption made easy

Added at 09/28/2015 by Frank Hissen

Here is a simple example for using strong password-based encryption for non-cryptographers with CrococryptLib.

Uses the following defaults: PBKDF2 key derivation with a SHA512 HMAC, 100000 iterations, 512 Bit salt and AES-256 in CBC mode.

public class SimplePBEEncryptionExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        String password = "Demo Password!";
        String textToencrypt = "Secret text to be encrypted, could also be any binary data";
        CompactPasswordKey key = CompactPasswordKey.generateKey(new Secret(password));
        String encryptedMessage = new CompactEncryption(key).encryptToBase64(new StringData(textToencrypt));
        System.out.println("\nEncrypted message: " + encryptedMessage);
        System.out.println("\nDecrypted message: " + new CompactEncryption(key).decryptFromBase64(encryptedMessage));
    }
}

Creates this output:

Encrypted message: AAAAAAIAAAAQ1SHBVLPfXMbOOV7rvSnrcgAAAGBwEOiB9h3H-KtVW1-1XPFi7H2dm61_0-DWaiCUafgzFuUaelB46X1pmijNCWd92BkqLlJ0F2NLbzFFGYvJGJgVztFf49WnAJ_J8B0OXLWgYuLkPdygH57CAHTnhSN9pP8

Decrypted message: Secret text to be encrypted, could also be any binary data

For more information go to the CrococryptLib Homepage.

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Password-based Encryption made easy

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