Convert byte[] to String

Hi. How do I convert byte[] to String like 'AEUKHJBJKBJJKBKJBKBB...' ? I am trying to encrypt a file and it returns a byte[]. I want to write the encrypted content to a file to store it so I thought it would be best to write to some String like the above mentioned. How do I do so ?

Tay Thotheolh wrote:Hi. How do I convert byte[] to String like 'AEUKHJBJKBJJKBKJBKBB...' ? I am trying to encrypt a file and it returns a byte[]. I want to write the encrypted content to a file to store it so I thought it would be best to write to some String like the above mentioned. How do I do so ?

It depends on the type of file. There is a constructor that takes a byte array, but keep in mind that the result of an encryption should be binary data. So, you'll have a string that is binary data -- which doesn't work very well if you write it to a text file. And... if you are going to write to a binary file, it may be best to write the byte array directly.

Anyway, if it is a text file, then you need to encode the string... convert the binary data to a readable string. Base64 encoding is probably the most common encoding standard. And there should be Java libs for that.

Henry

Tay Thotheolh wrote:I want to write the encrypted content to a file to store it

Be very careful. Nearly all encryption/decryption algorithms are defined only on arrays of unsigned octets (roughly byte[])
These are not directly transferable to Java Strings without care or something like MIME-encoding. Just getting the bytes out of the String is not enough, as String are all Unicode, which convert to two or even three characters when you properly handle international encodings.

Thanks. I would look into the encoding.