Java PBEWithMD5AndDES

Question

I am using password based encryption. My initial thought was to use AES to encrypt the file which contains passwords. Turns out password based encryption does not support AES. I

Answer 1

You should not be keeping the passwords in any form other than salted hash digests.

You should then use the operating system permission system to make it such that the hashed password file is only readable by the user which validates passwords.