[nycphp-talk] Encrypt/Decrypt without MCrypt
Daniel Kushner
nyphp at websapp.com
Mon Dec 1 09:25:27 EST 2003
Hi Jeff,
That wouldn't really work. decoding the $sEncoded variable would result in
a serialized array, thus exposing your PIN.
Best,
Daniel
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Siegel
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> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Encrypt/Decrypt without MCrypt
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> I may be faced with a situation where I don't have MCrypt for
> encrypting/decrypting data. I need to store the PIN numbers in a
> database and be able to retrieve them. Is there some other method I can
> use instead? I was thinking, perhaps, something like the following:
>
> $myPinNumber = "123DGH";
> $sSecret = '7R5D1N3V5C4Y6Z2X';
> $ary = array('PIN' => $myPinNumber, 'Secret' =>
> $sSecret);
> $sEncoded = base64_encode(serialize($ary));
>
> Jeff Siegel
>
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