How to encrypt a string in Java

me4linux · 09-03-2007, 12:42 PM

Hi all

I have got some code from net abt encrypting a string using jce..
but it uses Base64Encoder.... i dont have this package..?
how to get this package...?

Is there any other way to encrypt a string say
String username = new String("fedora");

i need to encrypt this String username....

Can any one Please tell me the code to do this..

THANKS IN ADVANCE

jlliagre · 09-03-2007, 03:30 PM

Base64 isn't about encryption but encoding.

There is no official way to encode/decode even while there are a couple of classes in the JVM that provide this functionality.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view...bug_id=4235519