Java Generate Key From String

Greenhorn

I need to generate a Key from a string, such that I can always create the same key from the same string. (Specifically a Key object, so that I can use it to create a Cipher in turn to create a SealedObject) Is this possible in Java, and what class/method combination should I be.
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I need to generate a Key from a string, such that I can always create the same key from the same string. (Specifically a Key object, so that I can use it to create a Cipher in turn to create a SealedObject) Is this possible in Java, and what class/method combination should I be looking at to do so?

posted 10 years ago

i want to compare objects. from each object i built a string. but this string is too long. so i want to create a key instead of keeping long string.
how can i create this key from the string.
Please help ! !

Marshal

posted 10 years ago

Welcome to JavaRanch
I presume you can't implement the Comparable interface? Can you create a Comparator?
If you put Strings as Keys in a Map, I didn't think there was any limit to its length.
Have I misunderstood your question?

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posted 10 years ago

Yeah, I agree. It is better to have the objects compare themselves -- or even using a comparator -- than to convert it to a string for comparision. But, to answer your question.
There is no free lunch here. You can shorten a string, but you will lose data, and hence, accuracy in comparison. Generally, shortening a string is useful, if you only care to detect if two strings are *not* equal. The easiest way is to use the hashcode, since if two strings are not equal, then their hashcodes are not equal either. Another way is to use a message digest, such as MD5 or SHA1, but again, like with hashcode, it is possible for two unequal strings to have the same digest.
Henry

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Greenhorn

posted 10 years ago

Thanks for the both replies.
inside my main object there are lot of sub objects. this main object is not just a string. so I create a unique string using the data inside this main object. this key would be length of 100 charactors.sometimes more than that. it depend on the data inside the main object.
And i have around 250 main objects to compare each other. so still you propose to keep the string key as the Map key?
I thought to use MD5 and create a hashcode.
also can two unequal objects have same hashcode if i use MD5?
Imesh

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posted 10 years ago

can two unequal objects have same hashcode if i use MD5?

No free lunch. Yes, they can.
However, MD5 tries its best to have two objects that are very similar to have different digests. Meaning, if two strings are off by only one or two characters, then it is highly unlikely that the two digests are the same. On the other hand, if two strings are completely different, then it has a better chance that the digests are the same.
Henry

Books: Java Threads, 3rd Edition, Jini in a Nutshell, and Java Gems (contributor)

Java Cowboy

posted 10 years ago

Imesh Damith wrote:also can two unequal objects have same hashcode if i use MD5?

Yes they can, as Henry already said. Hash codes, in whatever form, are not going to help you here. It's theoretically impossible to make it so that two unequal objects always have different hash codes - if that would be possible, you'd have invented an incredible compression algorithm that violates the laws of information theory.

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It's easy to see why this is theoretically impossible. Suppose you have a block of data containing N bits. Then there are 2^N possible ways you could fill this block of data. Now, you're going to calculate an M-bit hash code over the block of data (where M < N). So there are 2^M possible hash codes. Since M < N, 2^M < 2^N, so there are less possible hash codes than blocks of data. This means that there must be different blocks of data that have the same hash code.

Greenhorn

posted 10 years ago

hi, jesper and henry
Thanks for the explenation, so is there anyway that i can solve my problem? do i have to keep lengthy string itself as the key in the map?
Thanks
Imesh

Java Cowboy

posted 10 years ago

If you need to be able to distinguish two objects which are not the same, then you are going to need to compare the objects fully somehow. Whether you do this via this lengthy string that you create out of the content of the objects, or whether you just compare the state of two objects directly, is up to you.
In my answer above I said that hash codes are not going to help you. That's maybe not entirely true - you can use hash codes to make comparisons faster. That's how collections such as HashSet and HashMap in the standard Java API work. But you will still need a way to compare the complete content of objects.
To compare two objects, you could do this:
1. Check if the hash codes of the two objects are different. If they are, then you're done; the two objects are different.
2. If the hash codes are equal, then you need to compare the full content of the two objects to determine if they are equal or not.
If you do it that way, then you only need to do a full comparison if the hash codes of the two objects are equal.
I don't know how performance critical your code is, but on a normal computer strings of 100 characters and 250 objects that you need to compare can be done in a small fraction of a second. Don't waste too much time on performance optimization if you don't know that there's a performance problem.

Marshal

posted 10 years ago

import java.util.Random; public class StringHashDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { new StringHashDemo(args[0]).go(); }//end main public void go() { System.out.println(this); System.out.printf(' . . . and the hashcode for that object follows, %h%n', this); }//end go private String text; public StringHashDemo(String seed) { Random rnd = new Random(); StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(seed); for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { int j = rnd.nextInt(); builder.append((char)(j & 0xffff)).append((char)((j >>> 0x10) & 0xffff)); builder.append(seed); }//end for text = builder.toString(); }//end constructor @Override public String toString() { return 'text length: ' + text.length() + ', starts like this: ' + text.substring(0, 1000); }//end to string @Override public boolean equals(Object obj) { return obj this    obj != null && obj.getClass() getClass() && ((StringHashDemo)obj).text.equals(text); }//end equals @Override public int hashCode() { long duration = System.nanoTime(); int hashcode = getClass().getName().hashCode() * 31 + text.hashCode(); duration = System.nanoTime() - duration; System.out.printf('taking %d.%03d u03bcs to work out . . . ', duration / 1000, duration % 1000); return hashcode; }//end hashcode }//end class

An running it, you get . . .

java StringHashDemo Campbell
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. . . and the hashcode for that object follows, taking 50497.219 μs to work out . . . d10dfa69

It varies between 51 and 68 milliseconds. For 10 million characters. Is that really too slow for you? Key

Greenhorn

posted 10 years ago

Thanks guys. I will use the custom built string as the key. as you guys explained it would not be a performance hit.
Imesh

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Creating a KeyGenerator Instance

Before you can use the Java KeyGenerator class you must create a KeyGenerator instance. You create a KeyGenerator instance by calling the static method getInstance() passing as parameter the name of the encryption algorithm to create a key for. Here is an example of creating a Java KeyGenerator instance:

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Initializing the KeyGenerator

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After creating the KeyGenerator instance you must initialize it. Initializing a KeyGenerator instance is done by calling its init() method. Here is an example of initializing a KeyGenerator instance:

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