How to use encryption, decryption and hashing algorithms in laravel applications.

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Encryption, Decryption and Hashing in laravel applications

Hello readers, I am back with another tutorial, here we will see how to use cryptography – cryptographic functions like encryption,decryption for handling and managing sensitive data and hashing algorithms for storing and handling passwords in laravel applications.

We all know that when there is some sensitive data to be handled in a application we need to use some cryptography like encryption, decryption and for storing passwords, cryptography like hashing is used to handle them efficiently.

Encryption and Decryption Cryptography

By default laravel uses AES-256-CBC to encrypt all the values, it means that it uses Advanced Encryption Standard encryption with 256 bit key size and a CBC cipher mode. However, we can also set the cipher and mode using the following functions,

Crypt::setMode('ctr');
Crypt::setCipher($cipher);

Encryption and decryption

Crypt::encrypt($value_to_be_encrypted);
Crypt::decrypt($value_to_be_decrypted);

Complete detailed post : http://justlaravel.com/cryptography-encryption-hashing/?utm_source=learninglaravel.net