laravel-5

Encryption
• Configuration
• Basic Usage
Configuration
Before using Laravel’s encrypter, you should set the key option of your config/app.php configuration
file to a 32 character, random string. If this value is not properly set, all values encrypted by
Laravel will be insecure.
Basic Usage
Encrypting A Value
You may encrypt a value using the Crypt facade. All encrypted values are encrypted using
OpenSSL and the AES-256-CBC cipher. Furthermore, all encrypted values are signed with a message
authentication code (MAC) to detect any modifications to the encrypted string.
For example, we may use the encrypt method to encrypt a secret and store it on an Eloquent model:
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