Re: mcrypt_encrypt help needed

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rick Dwyer <rpdwyer@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