public class DesEncrypter {
		Cipher ecipher;
		Cipher dcipher;

		// 8-byte Salt
		byte[] salt = { (byte) 0xA9, (byte) 0x9B, (byte) 0xC8, (byte) 0x32,
				(byte) 0x56, (byte) 0x35, (byte) 0xE3, (byte) 0x03 };

		// Iteration count
		int iterationCount = 19;

		public DesEncrypter(String passPhrase) {
			try {
				// Create the key
				KeySpec keySpec = new PBEKeySpec(passPhrase.toCharArray(),
						salt, iterationCount);
				SecretKey key = SecretKeyFactory
						.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES")
						.generateSecret(keySpec);
				ecipher = Cipher.getInstance(key.getAlgorithm());
				dcipher = Cipher.getInstance(key.getAlgorithm());

				// Prepare the parameter to the ciphers
				AlgorithmParameterSpec paramSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt,
						iterationCount);

				// Create the ciphers
				ecipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, paramSpec);
				dcipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, paramSpec);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				throw new RuntimeException(e);
			}
		}

		public String encrypt(String str) {
			try {
				// Encode the string into bytes using utf-8
				byte[] utf8 = str.getBytes("UTF8");

				// Encrypt
				byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal(utf8);

				// Encode bytes to base64 to get a string
				return Base64.encodeBase64String(enc);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				throw new RuntimeException(e);
			}
		}

		public String decrypt(String str) {
			try {
				// Decode base64 to get bytes
				byte[] dec = Base64.decodeBase64(str);

				// Decrypt
				byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);

				// Decode using utf-8
				return new String(utf8, "UTF8");
			} catch (Exception e) {
				throw new RuntimeException(e);
			}
		}
	}