Java md5&Blowfish port from Python(Encryption)

[Neo Angelus]

Greetings everyone,

I have a question concerning encryption and porting code from Python.

I wanted to port the following code from Python:

from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish
from Crypto.Hash import MD5

  md5_key = MD5.new(cleartext).digest()

  payload = (md5_key + cleartext)
  
  secret_key = "XXXXX_XXXXXX_XXXXXX+" + password

  return Blowfish.new(secret_key, 1).encrypt(payload)

And tried it with this code:

		
		byte[] secret_key = ("XXXXX_XXXXXX_XXXXXX+" + password).getBytes();

		SecretKey secretkey = new SecretKeySpec(secret_key, "Blowfish");

		Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Blowfish");

		cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretkey);

		cipher.update(md5(inputText));

		return cipher.doFinal(inputText.getBytes());

	public static String md5(String to) throws Exception{
	    MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
	    m.update(to.getBytes(),0,to.length());
	    
	    return m.digest();
	}

But I ran into the following two problems:
Fixed: The md5 payload doesn't match.(I outputted both payloads and compared them.)
Using blowfish I get: Illegal key size or default parameters

To be honest I'm completely lost. I've tried to fix it all afternoon, but I couldn't fix them.

Could someone please help me?

btw,
The password variable is 7 characters long.