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Swim89
Swim89

Reputation: 310

Laravel encrypt password before storing on DB and decrypt it to use on email settings

I followed this tutorial to create dynamic email settings stored on db.

https://kayike.medium.com/enable-unique-and-dynamic-smtp-mail-settings-for-each-user-laravel-48e320d381ec

The only problem is that the password is not encrypted. I would like to encrypt it before storing on db and decrypt it before using on MailServiceProvider.

I tried to use bcrypt but it can't be de-crypted. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2122

Answers (1)

Farhan Ibn Wahid
Farhan Ibn Wahid

Reputation: 1012

see the docs for encryption: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/encryption

encrypting password:

$encrypted = crypt::encryptString($password);

//store this to database

decrypting password:

$decrypted_password = crypt::decryptString($encrypted);
//use this for mailer settings

Note: don't forget to use namespace Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt; in the controller

Additional Note for bcrypt: encryption-decryption is different than hashing, bcrypt is a hashing formula which can't be decrypted (one way process).

Upvotes: 2

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