mcrypt_generic
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5)
mcrypt_generic — This function encrypts data
Description
string mcrypt_generic
( resource $td
, string $data
)
If you want to store the encrypted data in a database make sure to store
the entire string as returned by mcrypt_generic, or the string will not
entirely decrypt properly. If your original string is 10 characters long
and the block size is 8 (use
mcrypt_enc_get_block_size() to determine the
blocksize), you would need at least 16 characters in your database field.
Note the string returned by mdecrypt_generic() will be
16 characters as well...use rtrim()($str, "\0") to
remove the padding.
If you are for example storing the data in a MySQL database remember that
varchar fields automatically have trailing spaces removed during
insertion. As encrypted data can end in a space (ASCII 32), the data will
be damaged by this removal. Store data in a tinyblob/tinytext (or
larger) field instead.
The encryption handle should always be initialized with
mcrypt_generic_init() with a key and an IV before
calling this function. Where the encryption is done, you should free the
encryption buffers by calling mcrypt_generic_deinit().
See mcrypt_module_open() for an example.
See also mdecrypt_generic(),
mcrypt_generic_init(), and
mcrypt_generic_deinit().
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