JAVA: 128-bit key to String problem and back

I have created a SecretkeySpec object wich contains a 128 bit key. I would like to have this key in a String(this string needs to be put back in to the original key later), so i use Base64 encoding.

This is how my key looks in raw format from the byte array into chars:

*P??? ?ukL|?~

So I take the bytes and encode it like this.

byte[] okay = Base64.encode(eF.开发者_开发技巧getSpec().getEncoded());

Now when i translate it into chars i get:

S2xEa3Ara0o5blVGYTB3WkRIeUZmZz09DQo=

Now i want to have my key back restored to it's original format from the base64 encoded array.

String dkey = "S2xEa3Ara0o5blVGYTB3WkRIeUZmZz09DQo=";

byte[] key = null;
key = dKey.getBytes();
key = Base64.decode(key);

Now when i check the result i get:

DKlDkp+kJ9nUFa0wZHyFfg==

instead of:

*P??? ?ukL|?~ 

As you can see this is not the result i hoped to see. I surely made a novice mistake, and forgive me for that but i am relativaly new to programming. I would appreciate it if someone could give me a working example of transforming the 128 bit key to and from readable format, and perhaps an explanation where i went wrong with thinking.

And i apologize for any spelling mistakes, English is not my native language.

Thanks in advance

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S2xEa3Ara0o5blVGYTB3WkRIeUZmZz09DQo=

decodes to

KlDkp+kJ9nUFa0wZDHyFfg==.

Is the extra D at the beginning a copy and paste error?

KlDkp+kJ9nUFa0wZDHyFfg== 

in turn is a valid base64 string that decodes to some binary data. So it seems that you are doing the encoding twice.

Now when i translate it into chars i get

How exactly are you doing that? Is there another base64 encoding involved in that step?

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You had some errors in the code (presuming you wrote it from the top of your head). This looks like a working version. Note that using these internal classes is not very clever (here I would prefer to use Apache Commons Codecs library, for example and its org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 class).

package edu.sasik.test.encoding;

import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dv.util.Base64;

public class TestBase64 {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String base64Str = Base64.encode("Hello World!".getBytes());
    System.out.println(base64Str);
    byte[] bytes = Base64.decode(base64Str);
    System.out.println(new String(bytes));
  }

}

Output:

SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh
Hello World!

Hope this helps.