[iaik-jce] compilation problem

[Harshavardhan Kuntur <harkun@auto-trol.com>]

I am trying to run a simple program which encrypts and decrypts the text
from the command line. I have a problem with reading the key from the file
Server.ser.  Intially when I tried to run the code without the key file,then
it works fine.It generates a new key and stores it into "Server.ser" But
after the Key file is created, if I run the program again, then it's unable
to read the Key from the keyfile "Server.ser".
It's giving me following errors:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: Assigning instance
of class [B to field iaik.security.cipher.SecretKey#a
    at kava/op/PnkectOm[itStrea,/om[itc;assFields<Compiled Code>
    at
java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject<ObjectInputStream.java:502> 
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readinputObject<compiled Code>
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject<ObjectInputStream.java:369>
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject <ObjectInputStream.java:232>
    at SecretWriting.main<SecretWriting.java:18>

THE CODE IS AS FOLLOWS:

import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import javax.crypto.*;
import sun.misc.*;

public class SecretWriting {
	public static void main(String[]args) throws Exception {
	//check arguments.
	if(args.length<2){
		System.out.println("Usage: SecretWriting -e|-d text");
		return;
	}
	
	//Get or create key.
	Key key;
	try{
		ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new
FileInputStream("SecretKey.ser"));
		key=(Key)in.readObject();
		in.close();
	}
	catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
	  KeyGenerator generator = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DES");
	  generator.init(new SecureRandom());
	  key=generator.generateKey();
	  ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new
FileOutputStream("SecretKey.ser"));
	  out.writeObject(key);
	  out.close();
	 }
	 //Get a cipher object.
	 Cipher cipher =Cipher.getInstance("DES/ECB/PKCS5Padding");
	 //encrypt or decrypt the input string.
	 if(args[0].indexOf("e") !=-1) {
	 	cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE,key);
		String amalgam = args[1];
	     byte[] stringBytes = amalgam.getBytes("UTF8");
		 byte[] raw = cipher.doFinal(stringBytes);
		 BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
		 String base64 = encoder.encode(raw);
		 System.out.println(base64);
   	}
   	else if(args[0].indexOf("d") !=-1){
		cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE,key);
		BASE64Decoder decoder = new BASE64Decoder();
		byte[] raw = decoder.decodeBuffer(args[1]);
		byte[] stringBytes = cipher.doFinal(raw);
		String result = new String(stringBytes, "UTF8");
		System.out.println(result);
	 }
   }
 }


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