Is there any way to access the DERIVED key (say a 3DES key)
in J2SE and PBE?
I think that although the internally derived IV is accessible, the
derived key is not. Is that correct?

e.g.

  String MYPBEALG = "PBEWithSHA1AndDESede" ;
  PBEParameterSpec  pbeParamSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt, count);
  String password = "ssshh! a difficult secret" ;
  PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray());
  keyFac = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(MYPBEALG);
  SecretKey pbeKey = keyFac.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
  Cipher pbeCipher = Cipher.getInstance(MYPBEALG);
  pbeCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, pbeKey, pbeParamSpec);

  byte[] IV = pbeCipher.getIV() ; //actual internally generated IV

  byte[] key = pbeKey.getEncoded();   //this just returns the password as a byte[]

- Mitch