gpg symmetric to Java JCA decryption

[Juergen Weber]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:23 PM, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Juergen Weber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> has anybody tried to decrypt a symmetric gpg encryption with Java
>> using Java Cryptography Architecture included in the JDK?
>>
>> echo hello |  gpg -c --cipher-algo 3DES -a --passphrase "my pass" |
>> java MyDeCrypt --cipher-algo 3DES --passphrase "my pass"
>>
>> should result in hello
>>
>> This should be possible, I googled for a sample, but there seems to be none.
>
> GnuPG encrypts using the OpenPGP standard.  The Java cryptography architecture doesn't follow that spec (that "file format" if you like). If you want to do OpenPGP in Java, I suggest http://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html which is a provider for the cryptography architecture.
>
> David

No, I don't need OpenPGP, just need symmetric encryption done by a
standard command line Unix tool and decryption by means of the Java
runtime library.
Guess I'll take openssl, looks like this works with Java:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5153188

Juergen