how to create password protect text file using java ?

Hello..
In my application I want to make text i.e .txt file password protected using Java.. is it Possible ?

Simple .txt files have no nice features like formatting or password protection. You will need to wrap the file into a different format that does support password protection, and also use a program that understands it to read them again.

I've tried out AxCrypt once and it can do what you want. If you want to program this yourself, for the encryption you should check out CipherOutputStream for writing and CipherInputStream for reading.

AxCrypt is fine but how can I do it Programatically ?

Even java.util.zip.ZipEntry class doent have setPassword method

I am generating some files programatically and I want to make those file password protected

Did you look into the other two classes that Rob recommended?

Henry

In this context, password == encryption key.

did lot of search on it ...but didn't work

finally found the bug

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4347142

Why didn't you state up front that you were talking about ZIP files? Password protection is not a feature of the standard ZIP format, making it unlikely that the class libraries will ever have it.

Maybe you could use SecureZIP CLI

You would be running an .exe or a bat file from your java progam... it's not elegant but it would do the trick...