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Invalid AES key length: 20 bytes (Java 11)

I am trying to generate a key using Java. To be honest I am not that experienced with keys, password, ciphers and encryption. And from whatever I have searched from this site, I see it as a very common problem. I did some reading and came up with this code that I wrote: This is modified from an answer that

Is SecureRandom weaken when seed with Random?

Could a seed from java.util.Random for java.security.SecureRandom weaken the cryptographically strong random number generator? I saw this code and wonder why this is done in that specific way. From the documentation, the call of setSeed will never reduce randomness. So why is setSeed called anyway? public voi…

How to translate an OID to a JCE algorithm name? [closed]

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