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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

Decrypt Data

(Appendix C, Cryptography - Pg 101-102)

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<?php

/* Retrieve $string. */

$string base64_decode($string);

$iv_size mcrypt_get_iv_size($algorithm$mode);

$ciphertext substr($string$iv_size);
$iv substr($string0$iv_size);

$crypt = new crypt();

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

$cleartext =  $crypt->cleartext;

?>