Encryption
Introduction
Laravel provides facilities for strong AES encryption via the Mcrypt PHP extension.
Basic Usage
Encrypting A Value
1$encrypted = Crypt::encrypt('secret'); Be sure to set a 16, 24, or 32 character random string in the key option of the config/app.php file. Otherwise, encrypted values will not be secure.
Decrypting A Value
1$decrypted = Crypt::decrypt($encryptedValue);Setting The Cipher & Mode
You may also set the cipher and mode used by the encrypter:
1Crypt::setMode('ctr');2 3Crypt::setCipher($cipher);
