Hello, I am storing certain data encrypted by pgcrypto in my database. Here are the commands I use to test the functionality: CREATE TABLE crypto ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, title VARCHAR(50), crypted_content BYTEA ); INSERT INTO crypto VALUES (1,'test1',encrypt('daniel', 'fooz', 'aes')); INSERT INTO crypto VALUES (2,'test2',encrypt('struck', 'fooz', 'aes')); INSERT INTO crypto VALUES (3,'test3',encrypt('konz', 'fooz', 'aes')); SELECT * FROM crypto; SELECT *,decrypt(crypted_content, 'fooz', 'aes') FROM crypto; SELECT *,decrypt(crypted_content, 'fooz', 'aes') FROM crypto WHERE decrypt(crypted_content, 'fooz', 'aes')='struck'; There are certain occasions where I would like to be able to decrypt/ encrypt the data in PHP itself. Is this possible with the "Mcrypt Encryption Functions" of PHP? I have already tried it, by as I am no expert in cryptography, I have difficulties finding the right syntax. This is the code I used to try it out: $test=new db_sql_user; $test->query("select crypted_content from crypto WHERE id=1;"); $crypt=$test->result(); echo "<br />"; echo "crypted content from postgresql: " .$crypt; $array = unpack("c2chars/nint", $crypt); echo $array; echo "<br />"; echo mcrypt_decrypt ( MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 , "fooz", $crypt, cbc); echo "<br />"; echo mcrypt_cbc (MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, "fooz", $crypt , MCRYPT_DECRYPT); This is the output: crypted content from postgresql: g°ñ\220399ùû¹qyg®Û~Array 5*X]Nl\x{2022}u 5*X]Nl\x{2022}u Best regards, Daniel Struck -- Retrovirology Laboratory Luxembourg Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg 4, rue E. Barblé L-1210 Luxembourg phone: +352-44116105 fax: +352-44116113 web: http://www.retrovirology.lu e-mail: struck.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx