I am trying to save a DES key to a file using KeyStore for later use. Here is my code: // Generate a DES key. KeyGenerator kg = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES"); SecretKey k = kg....

I am aware that DES is considered as an insecure algorithm for encryption at the moment. So does that imply that we should stop using the class DESKeySpec in JCA for specifying a key for encryption? M...

I'm playing around with DES encryption using CBC mode, and I came across something puzzling. I have a payload (not generated by me, but for which I know the key), accompanied by an IV, as well as a sa...

I am new to coding and I wanted some help with understanding what could be the problem with my DES encryption implementation. I keep getting an Abort trap: 6 error but am unsure about the cause. My tr...