Crypto Samples in java part three - Symmetric key encryption

A secret key is generated and only known by the sender and the receiver. Sender encrypts the plain text in to cypher text using the shared key and sends it to the receiver. After Receiver receives the encrypted message he/she decrypts the message using the shared key and grabs the original plain text (have a look at the image for a better understanding).

import java.security.spec.AlgorithmParameterSpec;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;

public class SimpleCipher {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  String data = "This have I thought good to deliver thee";

  // ---------------Encryption ---------------------------------

  byte[] encrypted = null;
  byte[] iv = null;
  SecretKey key = null;

  try {
   KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");/*
                 * get the key
                 * generator
                 * instance
                 */
   key = keygen.generateKey();// generate the secret key

   Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
   /*
    * get cipher engine instance.DES algorithm is used and it requires
    * the input data to be 8-byte sized blocks. To encrypt a plain text
    * message that is not multiples of 8-byte blocks, the text message
    * must be padded with additional bytes to make the text message to
    * be multiples of 8-byte blocks.PKCS5Padding has used for that
    * purpose. note that CBC is a block cipher mode therefore we need
    * an initialization vector to chain blocks.
    */

   cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);/*
             * initializing cipher engine
             * for encryption
             */

   encrypted = cipher.doFinal(data.getBytes());/* do the encryption */

   iv = cipher.getIV();/*
         * save the initialization vector, remember that
         * we need this only when we are using cipher
         * block chaining mode for encryption
         */

  } catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }

  // ---------------Decryption ---------------------------------

  try {

   Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");/*
                   * get
                   * cipher
                   * engine
                   * instance
                   */

   AlgorithmParameterSpec param = new IvParameterSpec(iv);/*
                  * set the
                  * vector
                  * value
                  */

   cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, param);/*
               * initializing cipher
               * engine for decryption
               */

   byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(encrypted);/*
               * obtain original plain
               * text
               */

   System.out.println(new String(decrypted));

  } catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }

 }

}