Re: Help! Made a boo-boo encrypting credit cards

That's a great suggestion. I will try this and report back. It's also been suggested to me that I should have base64_encoded the encryptions before storing them in MySQL, so I'll try this option at the same time. On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > Onto the problem of the data you already have. Do you have a test-case that causes the problem? > Try running a bunch of fictitious numbers against your code and store the results in your DB. For a > decent test, you'll want to test it against a lot of numbers, store each one in plain format in > the DB (use the same character encoding as you already have to see if that's part of the issue) > alongside the encrypted version, then retrieve the encrypted value and test it against the original. > It may take only a few dozen numbers to show the problem, it may take a thousand, but just let it > run until it finds a problem.