Encrypt and decrypt ArrayList <String>
I need to save a list of string arrays in a file, encrypting it. And then I decrypt the contents of the file and restore it to the list of arrays. But when I decrypt the content, it stores "Null" blocks. Without the "Null" blocks, the rest of the text matches the encoding i.
public static void encryptFile(List<String> moduleList, File fileOut) {
try {
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileOut);
out = new CipherOutputStream(out, encryptCipher);
StringBuilder moduleSet = new StringBuilder();
for (String module : moduleList) {
moduleSet.append(module + "#");
}
out.write(moduleSet.toString().getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
}
}
public static List<String> decryptFile(File fileIn) {
List<String> moduleList = new ArrayList<String>();
byte[] buf = new byte[16];
try {
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(fileIn);
in = new CipherInputStream(in, decryptCipher);
int numRead = 0;
int counter = 0;
StringBuilder moduleSet = new StringBuilder();
while ((numRead = in.read(buf)) >= 0) {
counter++;
moduleSet.append(new String(buf));
}
String[] blocks = moduleSet.split("#");
System.out.println("Items: " + blocks.length);
} catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
}
return moduleList;
}
I tried with UTF-16 since the strings are encoded in java in UTF-16, but that only makes the output worse. Your suggestions will be appreciated ... Thanks
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1 answer
I would snatch the code in which you convert the contents of the list to and from a string and replace it with ObjectOutputStream :
FileOutputStream out1 = new FileOutputStream(fileOut);
CipherOutputStream out2 = new CipherOutputStream(out1, encryptCipher);
ObjectOutputStream out3 = new ObjectOutputStream(out2);
out3.writeObject(moduleList);
Then to read:
FileInputStream in1 = new FileInputStream(fileIn);
CipherInputStream in2 = new CipherInputStream(in1, decryptCipher);
ObjectInputStream in3 = new ObjectInputStream(in2);
moduleList = (Set<String>)in3.readObject()
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