Java Programming

Hi Friends ,

I am trying to encrypt a password string and then decrypt it .
The thing is i need to convert the encrypted String which is a byte array to a string . While decrypting i need to convert the encrypted string to a Byte .
I tried using String.getBytes() for converting a string to byte array , but this is giving an exception

javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 8 when decrypting with padded cipher

Please find below my code

import java.security.Key;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;
/**
 *
 * @author rajeshreddy
 */
public class Encrypt
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        try
        {
            
	   BASE64Encoder en = new BASE64Encoder();
	   BASE64Decoder en1 = new BASE64Decoder(); 
           
            String password = "S_@!et";
        
            KeyGenerator kg = KeyGenerator.getInstance("DESede");
            Key key = kg.generateKey();

            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DESede");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);

            // Encrypt password
            byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(password.getBytes());
            String e = new String(encrypted);
            byte[] toDecrypt  = e.getBytes();
            // Create decryption cipher
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
            
            byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(toDecrypt);

            // Convert byte[] to String
            String decryptedString = new String(decrypted);

            System.out.println("password: " + password);
            System.out.println("encrypted: " + encrypted);
            System.out.println("decrypted: " + decryptedString);

        } catch (Exception ex)
        {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

I cab use sun.misc.BASE64Decoder and sun.misc.BASE64Encoder which avoids this error, but this packages are sun proprietery packages so there is a chance of removing these in future releases.

Please suggest me the best way to tackle this