[nycphp-talk] Encrypt and decrypt to store in DB
Rob Marscher
rmarscher at beaffinitive.com
Thu Aug 3 10:46:49 EDT 2006
The openssl extension has some encryption functions:
<http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-public-encrypt.php>
The comments on that page have good examples on how to use it.
I'm pretty positive PEAR has Encryption classes too, but I haven't used
them.
-Rob
Aaron Fischer wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm storing sensitive information in a MySQL db and will need to read it
> at some point so I can't do a one way encrypt like md5().
>
> Following Chris's recommendation of mcrypt(), I ran
> mcrypt_list_algorithms() and it appears that mcrypt is not available to
> me on my server.
>
> Are there any other functions/classes that folks would recommend that
> would allow me to encrypt and decrypt a string?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Aaron
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