AES decrypt for j2me - encryption

Question

I read on this link
AES Encryption/Decryption with Bouncycastle Example in J2ME
about how to encrypt a string using AES as supplied by Bouncy Castle. The encryption method code works fine but decryption doesn't work.
Can anyone suggest how I can decrypt the encrypted string?
I've used the following code to test:
import com.codename1.util.Base64;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.CipherParameters;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.engines.AESEngine;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.modes.CBCBlockCipher;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.paddings.PaddedBufferedBlockCipher;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.params.KeyParameter;
import org.bouncycastle.crypto.params.ParametersWithIV;
/**
*
* #author SAMUEL
*/
public class Tester {
static String strEnc = "Hi This is my String";
final static String strPassword = "password12345678";
private static byte[] cipherData(PaddedBufferedBlockCipher cipher, byte[] data)throws Exception
{
int minSize = cipher.getOutputSize(data.length);
byte[] outBuf = new byte[minSize];
int length1 = cipher.processBytes(data, 0, data.length, outBuf, 0);
int length2 = cipher.doFinal(outBuf, length1);
int actualLength = length1 + length2;
byte[] result = new byte[actualLength];
System.arraycopy(outBuf, 0, result, 0, result.length);
return result;
}
private static byte[] decrypt(byte[] cipher, byte[] key, byte[] iv) throws Exception
{
PaddedBufferedBlockCipher aes = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(new CBCBlockCipher(new AESEngine()));
CipherParameters ivAndKey = new ParametersWithIV(new KeyParameter(key), iv);
aes.init(false, ivAndKey);
return cipherData(aes, cipher);
}
private static byte[] encrypt(byte[] plain, byte[] key, byte[] iv) throws Exception
{
PaddedBufferedBlockCipher aes = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(new CBCBlockCipher(new AESEngine()));
CipherParameters ivAndKey = new ParametersWithIV(new KeyParameter(key), iv);
aes.init(true, ivAndKey);
return cipherData(aes, plain);
}
public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception{
byte[] enc= encrypt(strEnc.getBytes(),"password12345678".getBytes(), "password12345678".getBytes());
String encrypted = Base64.encode(enc);
System.out.println("Encrypted is:"+encrypted);
byte[] dec= decrypt(encrypted.getBytes(),"password12345678".getBytes() , "password12345678".getBytes());
System.out.println("Decrypted file is:"+dec);
}
}
Output is:
Encrypted is:sw0SrUIKe0DmS7sRd9+XMgtYg+BUiAfiOsdMw/Lo2RA=
And the exception stacktrace is:
Exception in thread "main" org.bouncycastle.crypto.DataLengthException: last block incomplete in decryption
at org.bouncycastle.crypto.paddings.PaddedBufferedBlockCipher.doFinal(PaddedBufferedBlockCipher.java:281)
at com.mycompany.myapp.Tester.cipherData(Tester.java:28)
at com.mycompany.myapp.Tester.decrypt(Tester.java:40)
at com.mycompany.myapp.Tester.main(Tester.java:57)

Answer 1

You are forgetting to base 64 decode the ciphertext before decryption. You should also create a new String from the decrypted bytes.
When encoding/decoding character strings, always specify the encoding explicitly, otherwise you will be using the platform default, which is not the same on each and every platform.
So use for instance new String(dec, "UTF-8") to recreate the plaintext, and specify "UTF-8" for each and every new String() and toBytes() method.