Is there an easy way to encrypt a java object?

Question

I\'d like to store a serialized object to a file however I\'d like to make it encrypted. It doesn\'t need to be really strong encryption. I just want something easy (preferably

Answer 1

Using CipherOutPutStream (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/crypto/CipherOutputStream.html) to write the objects into the ObjectOutputStream might be an easy and good approach here.