Hi Tauren, Try this:
Key key = cipherService.generateNewKey(); String base64 = new SimpleByteSource(key.getEncoded()).toBase64(); Then put the base64 string somewhere (in a props file, etc). When you need to reverse the process, you can do this: byte[] bytes = Base64.decode(encoded); You'll use the 'bytes' variable as your argument to the CipherService methods. Does that help? Cheers, Les P.S. That reminds me. I think it'd be a good idea to have a Cryptor interface - a component that stores the key as an internal attribute so encryption and decryption operations don't require a key argument. It would probably itself use an internal CipherService to do its work...
