[java] Given final block not properly padded

I am trying to implement password based encryption algorithm, but I get this exception:

javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded

What might be the problem?

Here is my code:

public class PasswordCrypter {

    private Key key;

    public PasswordCrypter(String password)  {
        try{
            KeyGenerator generator;
            generator = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");
            SecureRandom sec = new SecureRandom(password.getBytes());
            generator.init(sec);
            key = generator.generateKey();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }


    public byte[] encrypt(byte[] array) throws CrypterException {
        try{
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);

            return cipher.doFinal(array);
        } catch (Exception e) { 
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    public byte[] decrypt(byte[] array) throws CrypterException{
        try{
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);

            return cipher.doFinal(array);
        } catch(Exception e ){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

(The JUnit Test)

public class PasswordCrypterTest {

    private static final byte[] MESSAGE = "Alpacas are awesome!".getBytes();
    private PasswordCrypter[] passwordCrypters;
    private byte[][] encryptedMessages;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        passwordCrypters = new PasswordCrypter[] {
            new PasswordCrypter("passwd"),
            new PasswordCrypter("passwd"),
            new PasswordCrypter("otherPasswd")
        };

        encryptedMessages = new byte[passwordCrypters.length][];
        for (int i = 0; i < passwordCrypters.length; i++) {
            encryptedMessages[i] = passwordCrypters[i].encrypt(MESSAGE);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testEncrypt() {
        for (byte[] encryptedMessage : encryptedMessages) {
            assertFalse(Arrays.equals(MESSAGE, encryptedMessage));
        }

        assertFalse(Arrays.equals(encryptedMessages[0], encryptedMessages[2]));
        assertFalse(Arrays.equals(encryptedMessages[1], encryptedMessages[2]));
    }

    @Test
    public void testDecrypt() {
        for (int i = 0; i < passwordCrypters.length; i++) {
            assertArrayEquals(MESSAGE, passwordCrypters[i].decrypt(encryptedMessages[i]));
        }

        assertArrayEquals(MESSAGE, passwordCrypters[0].decrypt(encryptedMessages[1]));
        assertArrayEquals(MESSAGE, passwordCrypters[1].decrypt(encryptedMessages[0]));

        try {
            assertFalse(Arrays.equals(MESSAGE, passwordCrypters[0].decrypt(encryptedMessages[2])));
        } catch (CrypterException e) {
            // Anything goes as long as the above statement is not true.
        }

        try {
            assertFalse(Arrays.equals(MESSAGE, passwordCrypters[2].decrypt(encryptedMessages[1])));
        } catch (CrypterException e) {
            // Anything goes as long as the above statement is not true.
        }
    }
}

depending on the cryptography algorithm you are using, you may have to add some padding bytes at the end before encrypting a byte array so that the length of the byte array is multiple of the block size:

Specifically in your case the padding schema you chose is PKCS5 which is described here: http://www.rsa.com/products/bsafe/documentation/cryptoj35html/doc/dev_guide/group_CJ_SYM__PAD.html

(I assume you have the issue when you try to encrypt)

You can choose your padding schema when you instantiate the Cipher object. Supported values depend on the security provider you are using.

By the way are you sure you want to use a symmetric encryption mechanism to encrypt passwords? Wouldn't be a one way hash better? If you really need to be able to decrypt passwords, DES is quite a weak solution, you may be interested in using something stronger like AES if you need to stay with a symmetric algorithm.

I met this issue due to operation system, simple to different platform about JRE implementation.

new SecureRandom(key.getBytes())

will get the same value in Windows, while it's different in Linux. So in Linux need to be changed to

SecureRandom secureRandom = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
secureRandom.setSeed(key.getBytes());
kgen.init(128, secureRandom);

"SHA1PRNG" is the algorithm used, you can refer here for more info about algorithms.

This can also be a issue when you enter wrong password for your sign key.