The following code is working on all the versions of android except the latest 4.2 import java.security.InvalidKeyException; import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; import java.security.SecureRandom; import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException; import javax.crypto.Cipher; import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException; import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator; import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;