Laravel’s encryption services provide a simple, convenient interface for encrypting and decrypting text via OpenSSL using AES-256 and AES-128 encryption.

Table of Contents

1. Encrypt
2. Decrypt

Encrypt

We can encrypt a value using the encryptString method provided by the Crypt facade. All encrypted values are encrypted using OpenSSL and the AES-256-CBC cipher.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt;

$encrypted = Crypt::encryptString("Hello World");
dd($encrypted);

Output:

eyJpdiI6Ik1RVW9vUi9qWVcrNVZYVHZLUjB2Tnc9PSIsInZhbHVlI...

Decrypt

We can decrypt values using the decryptString method provided by the Crypt facade.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt;

try {
  $decrypted = Crypt::decryptString("encrypted-string");
  dd($decrypted);
} catch (DecryptException $e) {
  dd($e->getMessage());
}

That’s all. Thanks for reading.