Encrypting password in xml file

Question

Hi
I want to encrypt the passwords in my xml configuration files. So I read some articles and found this method. I tried to use it in my progroam , it gives me an error, saying
java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm DESede not available
The method is,
public static String getEncryptedString(String input)throws Exception{
Security.addProvider( new com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE() );
Key key = null;
KeyGenerator kg = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");
key = kg.generateKey();
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[]inputBytes = input.getBytes("UTF8");
byte[] outputBytes = cipher.doFinal(inputBytes);
BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
String base64 = encoder.encode(outputBytes);
return base64;
Would appreciate if any one tells me why this error is thrown and how to get it working.
Thanks

Answer 1

Cross post http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=636507&messageID=3711580#3711580