Encrypt string in java, decrypt in node.js, error: bad decrypt

Question

I\'m trying to encrypt a string in java, send it to my node.js server, and decrypt it. However, when I try to do this I get keep getting errors when trying to decrypt.

Answer 1

Java crypto's default mode for DES is ECB, which you need to specify in nodejs:

var decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('des-ecb', key, new Buffer(0))
var txt = decipher.update(encrypt_text, 'hex', 'utf8');
txt += decipher.final('utf8')
return txt