On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdw...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am using the following function to encrypt a string:
>
> define('SALT', 'myvalueforsalthere');
>
> function encrypt($text)
> {
> return trim(base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, SALT,
> $text, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB,
> mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB),
> MCRYPT_RAND))));
> }
>
Can you post your decrypt function too?
You create a random IV here, don't you need that IV to decrypt too?
> The above when decrypted will spit out a string of unprintable characters.
> Is encrypt/decrypt choking on the "=" sign? I tried:
>
> $myval=htmlentities($myval);
>
> But it did not work. Any help is appreciated.
I doubt it's choking on anything. htmlentities is only for safe output
to browser, you can always check the 'real' value by looking at the
page source in your browser.
Matijn
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