Day 31 - Encryption
Still behind by a post. Tomorrow I will make sure to catch up.
The tutorial yesterday was on encryption in ProdigyView. I implemented this out of my own frustration dealing with mcrypt for the first time in PHP. PVSecurity acts an an abstract for the mcrypt functions, allowing you the developer to only pass a value to the encryption and not have to worry about setting up the encryption.
One thing you want want to ensure when using the encryption in PVSecurity is to change the key and not use the default key. This can be changed in PVSecurity::init or in the options when reading or writing the encrypting. Also keep in mind, just because something is encrypted, does not mean it is 100% secure. Sensitive information should never be held in cookies and transmitted only over a secure connection.
Encryption -Â http://www.prodigyview.com/tutorials/slideshare/364/105