ejce 0.97 to easyjce 1.1.0 upgrade problems

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We have recently upgraded our application from Hibernate 3 to Hibernate 4, and have thus upgraded to version 1.1.0 of this library (formerly used ejce 0.97) When attempting to decrypt a org.antfarmer.ejce.hibernate.EncryptedTextType using compression with 1.1.0 that was previously inserted into our DB using version 0.97, we are encountering the following exception:
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Error decrypting object. at org.antfarmer.ejce.hibernate.AbstractLobType.nullSafeGet(AbstractLobType.java:182) at org.hibernate.type.CustomType.nullSafeGet(CustomType.java:127) at org.hibernate.type.AbstractType.hydrate(AbstractType.java:106) at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.hydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2969) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadFromResultSet(Loader.java:1696) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.instanceNotYetLoaded(Loader.java:1628) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRow(Loader.java:1515) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRowFromResultSet(Loader.java:726) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.processResultSet(Loader.java:953) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:921) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:355) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2554) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2540) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2370) at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2365) at org.hibernate.loader.criteria.CriteriaLoader.list(CriteriaLoader.java:126) at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1718) at org.hibernate.internal.CriteriaImpl.list(CriteriaImpl.java:380) at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:341) ... 110 more Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: incorrect header check at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInputStream.java:164) at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.java:107) at org.antfarmer.ejce.hibernate.AbstractLobType.streamToLob(AbstractLobType.java:295) at org.antfarmer.ejce.hibernate.AbstractLobType.nullSafeGet(AbstractLobType.java:172) ... 129 more

I am assuming there are new / different defaults for the Cipher used between version 0.97 and 1.1.0, but I am not sure where to start looking. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.