title: reducing the query string length
body: <p>In my web application, we encrypt the query parameters using <code>PBEWithMD5AndDES</code> and then encode it using <code>sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode()</code>. It makes the length of whole URL more than 140 characters. Is there a way without changing encryption &amp; encoding , I can reduce the length to around 80 characters? If I have to change the encryption algorithm and encoding to reduce the length, what should I be using keeping security in mind?</p>