Stopping decryption before EOF throws exception: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed

Question

This is the scenario we have: We have huge encrypted files, in the order of gigabytes that we can decrypt correctly if we read them until the end. The problem arises when we ar

Answer 1

As I understand it, the exception is thrown when the last byte read is not a valid padding byte. When you intentionally close the stream early, the last byte read will most likely be considered "invalid padding" and the exception is thrown. Since you're ending intentionally, you should be safe ignoring the exception.