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Encryption of image files on Android — Cipher(Output|Input)Stream problems



I'm trying to encrypt image files on Android with password based encryption. To save the encrypted image I just do this:







FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(thumbnailFile);

CipherOutputStream cos = new CipherOutputStream(fos, encryptCipher);

Bitmap thumbnail = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bm2, 140, 140, true);

thumbnail.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 80, cos);







and to read it, this:







FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);

CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(fis, decryptCipher);

Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(cis);







but the Bitmap ends up as null. The code works when I bypass the encryption; that is when I use the File(Input|Output)Streams rather than the Cipher(Input|Output)streams.





My Ciphers are created as follows:







public void initCiphers(char password[]) {



PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec;

PBEParameterSpec pbeParamSpec;

SecretKeyFactory keyFac;



byte[] salt = {

(byte)0xc7, (byte)0x73, (byte)0x21, (byte)0x8c,

(byte)0x7e, (byte)0xc8, (byte)0xee, (byte)0x99

};

int count = 20;

pbeParamSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt, count);

pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password);

try {

keyFac = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");

SecretKey pbeKey = keyFac.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);

encryptCipher = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");

decryptCipher = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");

encryptCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, pbeKey, pbeParamSpec);

decryptCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, pbeKey, pbeParamSpec);

} catch (Exception e) {

Log.v("tag", e.toString());

}







I don't get any exceptions.





There is obviously some problem with using Cipher(Output|Input)Streams with the android functions for encoding and/or decoding images, but since those functions are opaque and there are no exceptions, its hard to know what it is. I suspect it has to do with padding or flushing. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated.



Source: Tips4all

Comments

  1. You could subclass CipherOutputStream or even just OutputStream, and just override the flush() method to do nothing.

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  2. When writing to a CipherOutputStream, make sure you close() the stream after writing the data (and not closing the underlying stream before it). Closing makes sure the right padding is added. A flush() alone is not enough here.

    Also, I would advise to not use DES for new protocols - preferred nowadays is AES.

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