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Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
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  1. Foreword
  2. Preface
  1. Introduction
  2. Forms and URLs
          ch02.pdf
  3. Databases and SQL
  4. Sessions and Cookies
          ch04.pdf
  5. Includes
  6. Files and Commands
  7. Authentication and Authorization
  8. Shared Hosting
  1. Configuration Directives
  2. Functions
  3. Cryptography
  4. Index

Use a Cryptography Class

(Appendix C, Cryptography - Pg 100)

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<?php

$crypt 
= new crypt();

$crypt->cleartext 'This is a string';
$crypt->generate_iv();
$crypt->encrypt();

$ciphertext base64_encode($crypt->ciphertext);
$iv base64_encode($crypt->iv);

unset(
$crypt);

/* Store $ciphertext and $iv (initialization vector). */

$ciphertext base64_decode($ciphertext);
$iv base64_decode($iv);

$crypt = new crypt();

$crypt->iv $iv;
$crypt->ciphertext $ciphertext;
$crypt->decrypt();

$cleartext $crypt->cleartext;

?>