Problem of DER bytes

[Heather]

I am implementing Fips 196 and I am caught in a problem recently. I encode the user certificate into encoded byte array and wrap the DER byte array into string object and when I tried to get these DER encoded bytes back again. I got the different bytes. Why this happened? Any help here?

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                         certData = response.getData();     
                         for(int i=0; i<certData.length; i++)
                         {
                              System.out.print(certData);

                         }

               String d = new String (certData);

               byte[] testarr = d.getBytes();

                    for(int i=0; i<testarr.length; i++)

                    {

                         System.out.print(d.getBytes()[i]);

                    }

[chico0609]

Your problem is just because bytes are signed. Any byte in the 0x80-0xFF range will be signed extended to int and printed as a negative integer in range -127...-1.

[Heather]

Your problem is just because bytes are signed. Any byte in the 0x80-0xFF range will be signed extended to int and printed as a negative integer in range -127...-1.

Thanks for your help. If the problem is due to sign extension, how can I modify my code?

[chico0609]

Clear the high order bits with a AND

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int unsigned_byte = certData[i] & 0xff;