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Invalid AES key length: 12 bytes in java

As per given steps, I have performed encryption but am getting an error.
Generate a 16-digit random number (session key). Say RANDOMNO.
RANDOMNO = 1111222233334444
Encrypt RANDOMNO using RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding and encode using Base64. Say ENCR_KEY.
ENCR_KEY = B64Encode(RSA/ECB/PKCS1Encryption(RANDOMNO,ICICIPubKey.cer))
Perform AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding encryption on request payload using RANDOMNO as key and ivinitialization vector. Say ENCR_DATA.
ENCR_DATA = B64Encode(AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding(REQUEST_DATA, RANDOMNO, IV))
Now the client may choose to send IV in request from one of the two options below.
Send Base64 Encoded IV in “iv” tag.
public byte[] generateRandomBytes() {
SecureRandom ng=new SecureRandom();
byte[] randomBytes=new byte[16];
ng.nextBytes(randomBytes);
return randomBytes;
}
//new method for encryption -we need to check
public String encryptRandomKeyWithCertificate(byte[] randomNumber) throws BadPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, InvalidKeyException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, FileNotFoundException, CertificateException {
//step2: encrypt the random number with certificate
FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("D:\\cedge_uat\\ICICIUATpubliccert.cer");
CertificateFactory f = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
X509Certificate certificate = (X509Certificate) f.generateCertificate(fin);
PublicKey publicKey = certificate.getPublicKey();
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, publicKey);
byte[] cipherData = cipher.doFinal(randomNumber);
String encodedData = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(cipherData);
return encodedData;
}
public String encryptRequestWithKey(String text, byte[] randomNumber) throws Exception {
//step3: encrypt the requestString with randomkeyEncrypted
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
BASE64Decoder decoder = new BASE64Decoder();
SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(randomNumber, "AES");
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(new byte[16]);
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, keySpec,ivSpec);
byte[] cipherData = cipher.doFinal(text.getBytes());
// BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
//return encoder.encode(cipherData).replaceAll("[\r\n]+", "");
String encodedData = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(cipherData);
return encodedData;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String requestString = "CORP_USER=";
byte[] randomNumber;
String encryptedKey;
try {
randomNumber=encryption.generateRandomBytes();
encryptedKey = encryption.encryptRandomKeyWithCertificate(randomNumber);
String encryptedData =encryption.encryptRequestWithKey(requestString,randomNumber);
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

According to the Wikipedia page on AES encryption, an AES key can be 128, 192 or 256 bits; i.e. 16, 24 or 32 bytes.
You are supplying a key whose size depends on the "random" number string you are generating. It looks like it will be between 1 and 19 digits plus a possible sign. When you call getBytes() on that string, you will get a byte array with anywhere between 1 and 20 bytes. That is typically NOT one of the acceptable key sizes for AES.
What you should do is use SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[]) and supply a byte array of one of the three acceptable key sizes for AES.

How to handle BadPaddingException During AES256 encryption in C# and decryption in Java

I don't know why an error is coming up.
Exception in thread "main" javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded. Such issues can arise if a bad key is used during decryption.
I understand that this error occurs when the incorrect key is used during the decryption. However, if you look at the test results result below, you can see that both C# and Java are the same (Key, IV, Salt is Base64 encoded).
C# Test Result
Java Test Result
It's the same!(Key, IV, Salt)
But the current BadpaddingException error is generated. What could be the problem?
I am attaching my source file.
C# (Encryption)
class AES {
private readonly static string keyStr = "This is Key";
private readonly static string vector = "This is Vector";
public static Rfc2898DeriveBytes MakeKey(string password){
byte[] keyBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password);
byte[] saltBytes = SHA512.Create().ComputeHash(keyBytes);
Rfc2898DeriveBytes result = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(keyBytes, saltBytes, 65536);
return result;
}
public static Rfc2898DeriveBytes MakeVector(string vector){
byte[] vectorBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(vector);
byte[] saltBytes = SHA512.Create().ComputeHash(vectorBytes);
Rfc2898DeriveBytes result = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(vectorBytes, saltBytes, 65536);
return result;
}
public static void Encrypt(String inputFile, String outputFile) {
using (RijndaelManaged aes = new RijndaelManaged()){
//Create Key and Vector
Rfc2898DeriveBytes key = AES.MakeKey(AES.keyStr);
Rfc2898DeriveBytes vector = AES.MakeVector(AES.vector);
//AES256
aes.BlockSize = 128;
aes.KeySize = 256;
// It is equal in java
// Cipher _Cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5PADDING");
aes.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
aes.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;
aes.Key = key.GetBytes(32); //256bit key
aes.IV = vector.GetBytes(16); //128bit block size
//processing Encrypt
ICryptoTransform encryptor = aes.CreateEncryptor(aes.Key, aes.IV);
byte[] encrypted;
using (MemoryStream msEncrypt = new MemoryStream()) {
using (CryptoStream csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write)) {
byte[] inputBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(inputFile);
csEncrypt.Write(inputBytes, 0, inputBytes.Length);
}
encrypted = msEncrypt.ToArray();
}
string encodedString = Convert.ToBase64String(encrypted);
File.WriteAllText(outputFile, encodedString);
}
}
}
Java (Decryption)
public class AES256File {
private static final String algorithm = "AES";
private static final String blockNPadding = algorithm+"/CBC/PKCS5Padding";
private static final String password = "This is Key";
private static final String IV = "This is Vector";
private static IvParameterSpec ivSpec;
private static Key keySpec;
public static void MakeKey(String password) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException, InvalidKeySpecException{
SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-512");
byte[] keyBytes = password.getBytes("UTF-8");
// C# : byte[] saltBytes = SHA512.Create().ComputeHash(keyBytes);
byte[] saltBytes = digest.digest(keyBytes);
//256bit
PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray(), saltBytes, 65536, 256);
Key secretKey = factory.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
byte[] key = new byte[32];
System.arraycopy(secretKey.getEncoded(), 0, key, 0, 32);
SecretKeySpec secret = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
setKeySpec(secret);
}
public static void MakeVector(String IV) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException, InvalidKeySpecException{
SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-512");
byte[] vectorBytes = IV.getBytes("UTF-8");
byte[] saltBytes = digest.digest(vectorBytes);
// 128bit
PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(IV.toCharArray(), saltBytes, 65536, 128);
Key secretIV = factory.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
byte[] iv = new byte[16];
System.arraycopy(secretIV.getEncoded(), 0, iv, 0, 16);
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
setIvSpec(ivSpec);
}
public void decrypt(File source, File dest) throws Exception {
Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance(blockNPadding);
c.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, keySpec, ivSpec);
fileProcessing(source, dest, c);
}
public void fileProcessing(File source, File dest, Cipher c) throws Exception{
InputStream input = null;
OutputStream output = null;
try{
input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(source));
output = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(dest));
byte[] buffer = new byte[input.available()];
int read = -1;
while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1){
output.write(c.update(buffer, 0, read));
}
byte[] deryptedBytes = c.doFinal(buffer); // -----------------------> Error!! Showing!
byte[] decodedBytes = Base64.getDecoder().decode(deryptedBytes);
String decodeString = new String(decodedBytes, "UTF-8");
decodedBytes = decodeString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
output.write(decodedBytes);
}finally{
if(output != null){
try{output.close();}catch(IOException e){}
}
if(input != null){
try{input.close();}catch(IOException e){}
}
}
}
I have verified as below.
Verification Key and IV in C#
//Key Verification
var salt = Convert.ToBase64String(saltBytes);
Console.Write("Salt Result : ");
Console.WriteLine(salt);
var result_test = Convert.ToBase64String(result.GetBytes(32));
Console.Write("Key Test Result: ");
Console.WriteLine(result_test);
//IV Verification (Salt is Using same code)
var result_test = Convert.ToBase64String(result.GetBytes(16));
Console.Write("IV Test Result: ");
Console.WriteLine(result_test);
Verification Key and IV in Java
//Key Verification
/* print Salt */
String base64 = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(saltBytes);
System.out.println("Salt Result : " + base64);
/* print Key */
String result_test = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(key);
System.out.println("Key Test Result : " + result_test);
/* print generated Key */
System.out.println("Secret Key Result : " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(secret.getEncoded()));
//IV Verification (Salt is Using same code)
/* print IV */
String result_test = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(iv);
System.out.println("IV Test Result : " + result_test);
/* print generated IV */
System.out.println("IV Result : " + Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(ivSpec.getIV()));
Updated
c# .netframework 4.5 / Java8 modified what #Topaco said and confirmed that it worked well.
I want to say thank you very much to #Topaco and #Gusto2, and I'm going to make changes to the parts that have been modified in security, just as #Gusto2 said!

1) In the C# Encrypt-method the plain text is encrypted first and then Base64-encoded. Thus, in the decryption process the data must be Base64-decoded first and then decrypted. Currently this is handled in the wrong order i.e. the data are decrypted first and then decoded. Therefore, in the Java fileProcessing-method replace
while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1){
output.write(c.update(buffer, 0, read));
}
with
while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1) {
byte[] bufferEncoded = buffer;
if (read != buffer.length) {
bufferEncoded = Arrays.copyOf(buffer, read);
}
byte[] bufferDecoded = Base64.getDecoder().decode(bufferEncoded);
output.write(c.update(bufferDecoded));
}
2) It's not necessary to pass buffer (or bufferDecoded) to the doFinal-method, since that was already done in the update-method. Thus,
byte[] deryptedBytes = c.doFinal(buffer);
must be replaced with
output.write(c.doFinal());
3) Since the Base64-decoding is already done in 1) in the try-block all lines following the doFinal-statement have to be removed. Overall, this results in
try {
input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(source));
output = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(dest));
byte[] buffer = new byte[input.available()];
int read = -1;
while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1) {
byte[] bufferEncoded = buffer;
if (read != buffer.length) {
bufferEncoded = Arrays.copyOf(buffer, read);
}
byte[] bufferDecoded = Base64.getDecoder().decode(bufferEncoded);
output.write(c.update(bufferDecoded));
}
output.write(c.doFinal());
}
4) The size of the buffer has to be a multiple of 4 in order to ensure a proper Base64-decoding. Thus, it's more reliable to replace
byte[] buffer = new byte[input.available()];
with
byte[] buffer = new byte[4 * (input.available() / 4)];
As long as the data are read in one chunk (which is not guaranteed, see e.g. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/io/InputStream.html#available()) there is no problem. However, if the data are read in several chunks it's important to read a multiple of 4 bytes, otherwise the Base64-decoding will fail. That can be easily proved by using a buffer size which isn't a multiple of 4. This point must also be considered if the buffer size is explicitly defined with regard to larger files.

while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1){
output.write(c.update(buffer, 0, read));
}
byte[] deryptedBytes = c.doFinal(buffer)
you are decrypting the input to a file, then you are using the same cipher instance to decrypt the the last read chunk (again) into a separate array not to the file
quick fix:
while((read = input.read(buffer)) != -1){
output.write(c.update(buffer, 0, read));
}
output.write(c.doFinal()); // write the padded block
if you want to create and print a decrypted String, you need to create a new Cipher instance (or maybe it will be enough to reinitialize the instance, I am not sure) assuming the buffer contains the whole input
c.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, keySpec, ivSpec);
// assuming the buffer contains the whole input again
byte[] deryptedBytes = c.doFinal(buffer); // decrypting the whole file again
correct approach:
IV is used to securely reuse the same encryption key for multiple encryptions. So if your key is not random, you should generate new random IV for each encryption (and pass the IV along the ciphertext, most often prepended). Otherwise the encryption is not semantically secure and you may create opening for the two pad attack. So deriving IV from the key may not be very secure.
I advice to use any MAC (authentication code) passed along the ciphertext to ensure integrity (e.g. HMAC)
you are still reading all the file input fully into memory, what would not work for REALLY LARGE files. You may initialize the buffer to an arbitrary length (a few MB?) and process the input file as chunked

android cipher doesn't decrypt first 16 bytes / characters of encrypted data

I am working on a file encryption/decryption app. I am using a simple .txt file for testing. When I select the file from within the app and choose to encrypt, the entire file data is encrypted. However, when I decrypt only part of the file data gets decrypted. For some reason the first 16 bytes/characters doesn't get decrypted.
test_file.txt contents: "This sentence is used to check file encryption/decryption results."
encryption result: "¾mÁSTÐÿT:Y­„"O¤]ÞPÕµß~ëqrÈb×ßq²¨†ldµJ,O|56\e^-’#þûÝû"
decryption result: "£ÿÒÜÑàh]VÄþ„- used to check file encryption/decryption results."
There aren't any errors in the logcat.
What am I doing wrong?
Method to encrypt file:
public void encryptFile(String password, String filePath) {
byte[] encryptedFileData = null;
byte[] fileData = null;
try {
fileData = readFile(filePath);//method provided below
// 64 bit salt for testing only
byte[] salt = "goodsalt".getBytes("UTF-8");
SecretKey key = generateKey(password.toCharArray(), salt);//method provided below
byte[] keyData = key.getEncoded();
SecretKeySpec sKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keyData, "AES");
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, sKeySpec);
encryptedFileData = cipher.doFinal(fileData);
saveData(encryptedFileData, filePath);//method provided below
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Method to read file content:
public byte[] readFile(String filePath) {
byte[] fileData;
File file = new File(filePath);
int size = (int) file.length();
fileData = new byte[size];
try {
BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
inputStream.read(fileData);
inputStream.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return fileData;
}
Method to generate secret key:
private SecretKey generateKey(char[] password, byte[] salt) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {
// Number of PBKDF2 hardening rounds to use. Larger values increase computation time. You
// should select a value that causes computation to take >100ms.
final int iterations = 1000;
// Generate a 256-bit key
final int outputKeyLength = 256;
SecretKeyFactory secretKeyFactory;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
// Use compatibility key factory -- only uses lower 8-bits of passphrase chars
secretKeyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1And8bit");
}
else {
// Traditional key factory. Will use lower 8-bits of passphrase chars on
// older Android versions (API level 18 and lower) and all available bits
// on KitKat and newer (API level 19 and higher).
secretKeyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
}
KeySpec keySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password, salt, iterations, outputKeyLength);
return secretKeyFactory.generateSecret(keySpec);
}
Method to save encrypted/decrypted data to the file:
private void saveData(byte[] newFileData, String filePath) {
File file = new File(filePath);
try {
BufferedOutputStream outputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
outputStream.write(newFileData);
outputStream.flush();
outputStream.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Method to decrypt file:
public void decryptFile(String password, String filePath) {
byte[] decryptedFileData = null;
byte[] fileData = null;
try {
fileData = readFile(filePath);
byte[] salt = "goodsalt".getBytes("UTF-8");//generateSalt();
SecretKey key = generateKey(password.toCharArray(), salt);
byte[] keyData = key.getEncoded();
SecretKeySpec sKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keyData, "AES");
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, sKeySpec);
decryptedFileData = cipher.doFinal(fileData);
saveData(decryptedFileData, filePath);
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This line of code encrypts the file:
//simple password for testing only
encryptor.encryptFile("password", "storage/emulated/0/Download/test_file.txt");
This line decrypts the file:
encryptor.decryptFile("password", "storage/emulated/0/Download/test_file.txt");
Edit: Thanks to DarkSquirrel42 and Oncaphillis. You guys are awesome!
Adding this line of code to both encrypt and decrypt functions solved my problem.
//note: the initialization vector (IV) must be 16 bytes in this case
//so, if a user password is being used to create it, measures must
//be taken to ensure proper IV length; random iv is best and should be
//stored, possibly alongside the encrypted data
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(password.getBytes("UTF-8"));
and then,
cipher.init(Cipher.XXXXXXX_MODE, sKeySpec, ivSpec);

your problem has something to do with the cipher's mode of operation ... cbc, or cipher block chaining mode
in general CBC is simple ... take whatever the output of your previous encryiption block was, and xor that onto the current input before encrypting it
for the first block we obviously have a problem... there is no previous block ... therefore we introduce something called IV ... an initialisation vector ... a block ength of random bytes ...
now ... as you can imagine, you will need the same IV when you want to decrypt ...
since you don't save that, the AES implementation will give you a random IV every time ...
therefore you don't have all information to decrypt block 1 ... which is the first 16 bytes in case of AES ...
when handling CBC mode data, it's allways a good choice to simply prepend the used IV in your cypertext output ... the IV shall just be random ... it is no secret ...

Like #ÐarkSquirrel42 already points out the en/decrytion routine for CBC seems to interpret the first 16 bytes as an initialisation vector. This worked for me:
// got to be random
byte[] iv = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
IvParameterSpec ivspec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
cipher.init(Cipher.XXXXX_MODE, sKeySpec,ivspec);

incomplete RSA decryption with large XML file type - JAVA

I have a problem when decrypting XML type my file my returns incomplete data algorithm and rare symbols.
public File decryptFile(File fileInput, X509Certificate certificate) throws BadPaddingException, Exception {
try (DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(fileInput))) {
byte[] encryptedKeyBytes = new byte[dis.readInt()];
dis.readFully(encryptedKeyBytes);
PublicKey publicKey = certificate.getPublicKey();
rsaCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, publicKey);
byte[] rijndaelKeyBytes = rsaCipher.doFinal(encryptedKeyBytes);
SecretKey rijndaelKey = new SecretKeySpec(rijndaelKeyBytes, "Rijndael");
byte[] iv = new byte[16];
dis.read(iv);
IvParameterSpec spec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Rijndael/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, rijndaelKey, spec);
try (CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(dis, cipher)) {
try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileInput.getAbsolutePath() + ".xml")) {
byte[] data = new byte[16];
int theByte;
while ((theByte = cis.read(data)) != -1) {
System.out.print(new String(data));
fos.write(data, 0, theByte);
}
System.out.println("\n\n");
}
}
}
return new File(fileInput.getAbsolutePath() + ".xml");
}
this code returns me the data
</ctaAbonBenef><distPago>00000</distPago><item>00000</item><pagoPoder>N</p�|���[�[W�Z�5��Q�
I think this has to do with UTF-8, but I can not solve.
Now I can also believe that it is the encryption algorithm to use, I leave just in case.
public static void generateFileEncrypt(File fileInput, PrivateKey privateKey, String folderSave) throws Exception {
String fileOutput = folderSave + "\" + fileInput.getName() + ENCRYPTED_FILENAME_SUFFIX;
DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(fileOutput));
Cipher rsaCipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding");
rsaCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, privateKey);
KeyGenerator rijndaelKeyGenerator = KeyGenerator.getInstance("Rijndael");
rijndaelKeyGenerator.init(128);
Key rijndaelKey = rijndaelKeyGenerator.generateKey();
byte[] encodedKeyBytes = rsaCipher.doFinal(rijndaelKey.getEncoded());
output.writeInt(encodedKeyBytes.length);
output.write(encodedKeyBytes);
SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
byte[] iv = new byte[16];
random.nextBytes(iv);
output.write(iv);
IvParameterSpec spec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
Cipher symmetricCipher = Cipher.getInstance("Rijndael/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
symmetricCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, rijndaelKey, spec);
try (
CipherOutputStream cos = new CipherOutputStream(output, symmetricCipher);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileInput)) {
int theByte;
byte[] data = new byte[16];
while ((theByte = fis.read(data)) != -1) {
System.out.print(new String(data));
cos.write(data, 0, theByte);
}
System.out.println("\n\n");
cos.flush();
}
}
Thanks in advance.

I haven't digested all your code; I stopped when I saw you trying to decrypt with the public key, and encrypting with the private key. That's sort of like a digital signature, but your padding will be all wrong and you should use the Signature class if that is what your really want to do.
The public key is used to encrypt, or to verify a digital signature. Use the private key to decrypt, and see if that resolves your problem.
You are still doing it wrong. Don't call it "encryption" if the key isn't private.
But anyway, I think the printing to stdout looks wrong because you are converting the entire buffer to text. The last block is likely to be padded, so it won't decode to valid text—it's padding; it wasn't part of the input file, and you aren't writing it to the decrypted file, but you are printing it.
Change to encrypt with the public key, decrypt with the private key, and then change your printing to this:
System.out.print(new String(data, 0, theByte));
Even better would be to specify the character set of the data (probably UTF-8, since it's the default for XML).

I think u should do the opposite. encrypt with the public key and decrypt with the private key..

RSA keyblock wrapper: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Decryption error

In a larger application doing other things - I need to encrypt and decrypt a file. So I have been looking around and have implemented these two core functions that basically use RSA keys to wrap a random AES key that encrypts a file. The symmetric key and iv are written to the start of the file.
I'm getting an exception ("javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Decryption error") in the decrypt function portion of below. On the unpackKeyandIV line -- the doFinal. Specifically this line is the Exception point:
Object[] keyIv = unpackKeyAndIV(xCipher.doFinal(keyBlock));
I've checked and remade the RSA key pairs. I've also checked the save/load of the keyBlock.
My gut is the problem has something to do with how I write/read the keyBlock --- or encoding perhaps?
One goal is to keep the RSA/AES instance as generic as possible so as not to need Bouncy Castle or extra Java security unlimited strength extensions.
Any thoughts on where I might be going wrong.
Thanks in advance.
[Final update: This code below is working. Error was passing in a corrupted privKey]
// RSA_INSTANCE = "RSA";
// ASSYM_CRYPTO_STR = 1024;
// SYM_CRYPTO_STR = 128;
// SYM_CRYPTO = "AES";
// AES_INSTANCE = "AES/CTR/NoPadding";
//
// File in = plain input file
// File out = encrypted output file
// Key pubKey = public Key (that wraps a random AES key)
public static void encryptFile(File in, File out, Key pubKey) throws Exception {
FileInputStream fin;
FileOutputStream fout;
int nread = 0;
byte[] inbuf = new byte[1024];
fout = new FileOutputStream(out);
fin = new FileInputStream(in);
SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
// symmetric wrapping
Key sKey = createKeyForAES(Config.SYM_CRYPTO_STR, random);
IvParameterSpec sIvSpec = createCtrIvForAES(0, random);
// encrypt symmetric key with RSA/pub key
Cipher xCipher = Cipher.getInstance(Config.RSA_INSTANCE);
xCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, pubKey, random);
byte[] keyBlock = xCipher.doFinal(packKeyAndIv(sKey, sIvSpec));
fout.write(keyBlock);
// encrypt data with symmetric key
Cipher sCipher = Cipher.getInstance(Config.AES_INSTANCE);
sCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, sKey, sIvSpec);
// Now read our file and encrypt it.
while((nread = fin.read(inbuf)) > 0) {
fout.write(sCipher.update(inbuf, 0, nread)); // cannot be null, by construction
}
// NB doFinal() cannot return null, but can return a zero-length array, which is benign below.
fout.write(sCipher.doFinal());
fout.flush();
fin.close();
fout.close();
}
// Decrypt File
public static void decryptFile(File in, File out, Key privKey) throws Exception {
FileInputStream fin;
FileOutputStream fout;
int nread = 0;
byte[] inbuf = new byte[1024];
fout = new FileOutputStream(out);
fin = new FileInputStream(in);
byte[] keyBlock = new byte[128];
nread = fin.read(keyBlock);
Cipher xCipher = Cipher.getInstance(Config.RSA_INSTANCE);
Cipher sCipher = Cipher.getInstance(Config.AES_INSTANCE);
// symmetric key/iv unwrapping step
xCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, privKey);
Object[] keyIv = unpackKeyAndIV(xCipher.doFinal(keyBlock));
// decryption step
sCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, (Key)keyIv[0], (IvParameterSpec)keyIv[1]);
while((nread = fin.read(inbuf)) >0) {
fout.write(sCipher.update(inbuf,0,nread));
}
fout.write(sCipher.doFinal());
fout.flush();
fin.close();
fout.close();
}
public static byte[] packKeyAndIv(Key key, IvParameterSpec ivSpec) throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bOut.write(ivSpec.getIV());
bOut.write(key.getEncoded());
return bOut.toByteArray();
}
public static Object[] unpackKeyAndIV(byte[] data) {
byte[] keyD = new byte[16];
byte[] iv = new byte[data.length - 16];
return new Object[] {
new SecretKeySpec(data, 16, data.length - 16, "AES"),
new IvParameterSpec(data, 0, 16)
};
}

Per edits and comments. Error was a corrupted privKey being passed into the decrypt function. Above code works fine.

try adding the following under your constructor -
Security.addProvider(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider());