SecurityUtils.java

package br.edu.uniritter.liquid.democracy.utils;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

public class SecurityUtils {

	public static String cipher(String password) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException{
		MessageDigest algorithm = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
		byte messageDigest[] = algorithm.digest(password.getBytes("UTF-8"));
		 
		StringBuilder hexString = new StringBuilder();
		for (byte b : messageDigest) {
		  hexString.append(String.format("%02X", 0xFF & b));
		}
		
		return hexString.toString();
	}
	
}