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Simple encryption class for PHP
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I've been doing some PHP encryption work lately, and seeing as such wrote a class to simplify the process. Hopefully this will save some of you some reading on the numerous options with PHP's mcrypt library. That being said I would not just copy this as is and assume you have secure encryption. 99% of encryption/decryption is understanding the process, and what you are doing. Take some time and read up on encryption if you have not done so already.
Without further ado, I present to you the Cipher class.
class Cipher {
var $securekey = "";
var $iv = "";
var $iv_size = 32;
function Cipher($textkey) {
$this->securekey = hash('sha256',$textkey,TRUE);
$this->iv = mcrypt_create_iv($this->iv_size);
}
function encrypt($input) {
return base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $this->securekey, $input, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $this->iv));
}
function decrypt($input) {
return trim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $this->securekey, base64_decode($input), MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $this->iv));
}
}
Not very difficult. But as some sample usage:
$cipher = new Cipher('secret passphrase');
$encrypted = $cipher->encrypt("you should encrypt me");
echo $encrypted;
$decrypted = $cipher->decrypt($encrypted);
echo $decrypted;
There are a whole number of different encryption algorithms available if you were to need to change from Rijndael, but it is very well-known and time-proven so if you need a quick and easy encryption class, just copy and paste and go to town!
Encryptin' Tom Out.
Tags
PHP
Encryption
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