Hi, Friday, January 14, 2005, 7:53:30 AM, you wrote: BD> Howdy all - BD> I have RTFM and STFW and I still can't get encryption to work. What I BD> finally ended up with from the PHP documentation is long, unwieldy, BD> confusing, and doesn't work. I give up. I threw my big mess away and BD> would like to start from scratch. BD> Could anyone point me to a web page or other documentation that shows a BD> SIMPLE example of encryption? I need two-way encryption & decryption, BD> not a one-way hash. I'll be using this to obfuscate get parameters. BD> Any pointers appreciated. Thanks all, BD> - Brian Here is a class that uses mcrypt that might be helpful: class encrypt_class{ var $secret; function encrypt_class(){ $this->secret = 'put pass string here'; } Function encode($id){ $eid = $iv = 0; $len = strlen($id); $id = $len.'-'.$id; //encode the string length for trimming later $td = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_TripleDES, "", MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, ""); $key = substr($this->secret, 0, mcrypt_enc_get_key_size ($td)); $iv = pack("a".mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($td),$iv); mcrypt_generic_init ($td, $key, $iv); $eid = base64_encode(mcrypt_generic ($td, $id)); mcrypt_generic_deinit($td); return $eid; } Function decode($eid){ $id = $iv = 0; $td = mcrypt_module_open (MCRYPT_TripleDES, "", MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, ""); $key = substr($this->secret, 0, mcrypt_enc_get_key_size ($td)); $iv = pack("a".mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($td),$iv); mcrypt_generic_init ($td, $key, $iv); $id = mdecrypt_generic ($td, base64_decode($eid)); $len = strtok($id,'-'); $id = substr($id,(strlen($len)+1),$len); mcrypt_generic_deinit($td); return $id; } } //useage $str = "Hello World"; $enc = new encrypt_class(); $estr = $enc->encode($str); echo "$estr<br>"; $dstr = $enc->decode($estr); echo "$dstr<br>"; -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php