Decrypting a hardcoded file as byte[]

Question

Well this is actually a two-parter...

First I need to

1. read the contents of the file
2. crypt them into a byte[]
3. write the

Answer 1

The I/O aspect of your question is best addressed by reading the "Byte Streams" and "Buffered Streams" sections of the Oracle Java tutorial. You can accumulate the bytes in memory by writing them to a ByteArrayOutputStream, and then using the toByteArray() method to get the bytes as a byte[].