corejava-exception-handling: Exception in thread main java.security.InvalidKeyException-Invalid AES key length-8 bytes

public class Test {

private static final String ALGORITHM = "AES";
private static final int ITERATIONS = 2;
private final static byte[] SALT = { (byte) 0xA9, (byte) 0x9B, (byte) 0xC8,
(byte) 0x32, (byte) 0x56, (byte) 0x35, (byte) 0xE3, (byte) 0x03 };

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String password = "mypassword";
String salt = "this is a simple clear salt";
String passwordEnc = Test.encrypt(password, salt);
String passwordDec = Test.decrypt(passwordEnc, salt);
System.out.println("Salt Text : " + salt);
System.out.println("Plain Text : " + password);
System.out.println("Encrypted : " + passwordEnc);
System.out.println("Decrypted : " + passwordDec);
}

public static String encrypt(String value, String salt) throws Exception {
Key key = generateKey();
Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
String valueToEnc = null;
String eValue = value;
for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) {
valueToEnc = salt + eValue;
byte[] encValue = c.doFinal(valueToEnc.getBytes());
eValue = new BASE64Encoder().encode(encValue);
}
return eValue;
}

public static String decrypt(String value, String salt) throws Exception {
Key key = generateKey();
Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
c.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
String dValue = null;
String valueToDecrypt = value;
for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) {
byte[] decordedValue = new BASE64Decoder()
.decodeBuffer(valueToDecrypt);
byte[] decValue = c.doFinal(decordedValue);
dValue = new String(decValue).substring(salt.length());
valueToDecrypt = dValue;
}
return dValue;
}

private static Key generateKey() throws Exception {
Key key = new SecretKeySpec(SALT, ALGORITHM);
return key;
}

}