Hi,
I am developing a
Java cryptography application. I want to encrypt a file using symmetric algorithms such as AES or DES and store the secretKey in a database for future decryption of the file. I am wondering how to store the SecretKey object in a database table. Should I serialize the key object? (secretKey is serilaizable.) How to store serialized object in database? what MYSQL data type should I use?
Another solution is to get the raw byte[] of key, convert it to base64 and store in database. I can later on decode the base64 key to the original Raw key, but the problem is in converting the raw key to SecretKey object.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Jim
