Encrypted save and decrypted load of an ArrayList of serializable objects

Question

I save and load in sd card a file that contains an ArrayList of serializable object with these two methods

save method

public static void sa         


        

Answer 1

You could simply use AES Encoding:

private static byte[] getEncrypt(final String key, final String message) throws GeneralSecurityException {
  final byte[] rawData = key.getBytes(Charset.forName("US-ASCII"));
  if (rawData.length != 16) {
    // If this is not 16 in length, there's a problem with the key size, nothing to do here
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("You've provided an invalid key size");
  }

  final SecretKeySpec seckeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(rawData, "AES");
  final Cipher ciph = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");

  ciph.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, seckeySpec, new IvParameterSpec(new byte[16]));
  return ciph.doFinal(message.getBytes(Charset.forName("US-ASCII")));
}

private static String getDecrypt(String key, byte[] encrypted) throws GeneralSecurityException {
  final byte[] rawData = key.getBytes(Charset.forName("US-ASCII"));
  if (rawData.length != 16) {
    // If this is not 16 in length, there's a problem with the key size, nothing to do here
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid key size.");
  }

  final SecretKeySpec seckeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(rawData, "AES");

  final Cipher ciph = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
  ciph.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, seckeySpec, new IvParameterSpec(new byte[16]));
  final byte[] decryptedmess = ciph.doFinal(encrypted);

  return new String(decryptedmess, Charset.forName("US-ASCII"));
}

Then, for trying it, this example may be valid for you:

final String encrypt = "My16inLengthKey5";
final byte[] docrypt = getEncrypt(encrypt, "This is a phrase to be encrypted!");
final String douncrypt = getDecrypt(encrypt.toString(), docrypt);
Log.d("Decryption", "Decrypted phrase: " + douncrypt);

Of course, douncrypt must match This is a phrase to be encrypted!