I am using the PBE Cipher (PBEWithMD5AndDES). I have set the salt and the 
iterator and all. Then I passed a String to my encryption method and the 
password is encrypted fine. Then I can also take the returned array of 
bytes (from the encryption) and decrypted with no problems. The problem 
arises when I convert the encrypted resulting array of bytes into a String
( to store it in a database). Later, when I passed this String to the 
encryption routine as an array of bytes (using getBytes() method), I
get a padding exception.
Something is happenning during the conversion from array of bytes to 
String (Stored in DB) and back to array of bytes.  I am trying to stored 
this in a ORACLE database (RAW datatype) table column. I am using CORBA 
interfaces to comunicate between the client side and the back end which is 
in C++(embembeded SQL).Please help!! Give me some code examples on how to 
do this convertions the right way.