A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Password-Based Encryption causes the following exception when password contains character '§':
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: Password is not ASCII

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1. compile PBERepro.java: javac -d . PBERepro.java
2. run it: java -cp . el.info.pbe PBERepro


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
No exception
ACTUAL -
Exception:
java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException: Password is not ASCII
at com.sun.crypto.provider.PBEKey.<init>(PBEKey.java:65)
at com.sun.crypto.provider.PBEKeyFactory.engineGenerateSecret(PBEKeyFactory.java:219)
at javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory.generateSecret(SecretKeyFactory.java:336)
at el.info.pbe.PBERepro.main(PBERepro.java:14)

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package el.info.pbe;

import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory;
import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec;

public class PBERepro {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String pwdString = "h§o";
PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(pwdString.toCharArray());

SecretKeyFactory secretKeyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWithHmacSHA512AndAES_128");
SecretKey pbeKey = secretKeyFactory.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
}
}
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FREQUENCY : always