Encrypt with specific key

I want to encrypt a string with a specific key, different for each encryption. I found a stackoverflow answer saying that this would work:

Crypt::setKey($encryption_key);
$encrypted_message =  Crypt::encrypt( $message );

It seems that the setKey method was removed in 5.0 however. How can I achieve this in 5.2?

skliche

10 years ago

Best Answer

Level 42

@freddinator This should still work:

$newEncrypter = new \Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter( $theOtherKey, Config::get( 'app.cipher' ) );
$encrypted = $newEncrypter->encrypt( $plainTextToEncrypt );
$decrypted = $newEncrypter->decrypt( $encrypted );

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