mcrypt_encrypt

Encrypts plaintext with given parameters

Warning

This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.1.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged.

Description

string mcrypt_encrypt ( string $cipher , string $key , string $data , string $mode [, string $iv ] )

Encrypts the data and returns it.

Parameters

cipher

One of the MCRYPT_ciphername constants, or the name of the algorithm as string.

key

The key with which the data will be encrypted. If the provided key size is not supported by the cipher, the function will emit a warning and return FALSE

data

The data that will be encrypted with the given cipher and mode. If the size of the data is not n * blocksize, the data will be padded with '\0'.

The returned crypttext can be larger than the size of the data that was given by data.

mode

One of the MCRYPT_MODE_modename constants, or one of the following strings: "ecb", "cbc", "cfb", "ofb", "nofb" or "stream".

iv

Used for the initialization in CBC, CFB, OFB modes, and in some algorithms in STREAM mode. If the provided IV size is not supported by the chaining mode or no IV was provided, but the chaining mode requires one, the function will emit a warning and return FALSE.

Return Values

Returns the encrypted data as a string or FALSE on failure.

Changelog

Version Description
5.6.0 Invalid key and iv sizes are no longer accepted. mcrypt_encrypt will now throw a warning and return FALSE if the inputs are invalid. Previously keys and IVs were padded with '\0' bytes to the next valid size.

Examples

Example #1 mcrypt_encrypt Example

<?php
    
# --- ENCRYPTION ---

    # the key should be random binary, use scrypt, bcrypt or PBKDF2 to
    # convert a string into a key
    # key is specified using hexadecimal
    
$key pack('H*'"bcb04b7e103a0cd8b54763051cef08bc55abe029fdebae5e1d417e2ffb2a00a3");
    
    
# show key size use either 16, 24 or 32 byte keys for AES-128, 192
    # and 256 respectively
    
$key_size =  strlen($key);
    echo 
"Key size: " $key_size "\n";
    
    
$plaintext "This string was AES-256 / CBC / ZeroBytePadding encrypted.";

    
# create a random IV to use with CBC encoding
    
$iv_size mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128MCRYPT_MODE_CBC);
    
$iv mcrypt_create_iv($iv_sizeMCRYPT_RAND);
    
    
# creates a cipher text compatible with AES (Rijndael block size = 128)
    # to keep the text confidential 
    # only suitable for encoded input that never ends with value 00h
    # (because of default zero padding)
    
$ciphertext mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128$key,
                                 
$plaintextMCRYPT_MODE_CBC$iv);

    
# prepend the IV for it to be available for decryption
    
$ciphertext $iv $ciphertext;
    
    
# encode the resulting cipher text so it can be represented by a string
    
$ciphertext_base64 base64_encode($ciphertext);

    echo  
$ciphertext_base64 "\n";

    
# === WARNING ===

    # Resulting cipher text has no integrity or authenticity added
    # and is not protected against padding oracle attacks.
    
    # --- DECRYPTION ---
    
    
$ciphertext_dec base64_decode($ciphertext_base64);
    
    
# retrieves the IV, iv_size should be created using mcrypt_get_iv_size()
    
$iv_dec substr($ciphertext_dec0$iv_size);
    
    
# retrieves the cipher text (everything except the $iv_size in the front)
    
$ciphertext_dec substr($ciphertext_dec$iv_size);

    
# may remove 00h valued characters from end of plain text
    
$plaintext_dec mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128$key,
                                    
$ciphertext_decMCRYPT_MODE_CBC$iv_dec);
    
    echo  
$plaintext_dec "\n";
?>

The above example will output:

Key size: 32
ENJW8mS2KaJoNB5E5CoSAAu0xARgsR1bdzFWpEn+poYw45q+73az5kYi4j+0haevext1dGrcW8Qi59txfCBV8BBj3bzRP3dFCp3CPQSJ8eU=
This string was AES-256 / CBC / ZeroBytePadding encrypted.

See Also

  • mcrypt_decrypt
  • mcrypt_module_open