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How can I encrypt POST data from a form? Basically, I want to ensure that the data on the form is not in plain text ever. Is this possible?

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="email" size="40">
<input type="password" name="password"/>
...

 

Basically, when this posts, I want to do a foreach on $_POST and see something like:

password = 1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f

  and not

password = stringTheUserTyped

 

I hope what I'm asking for is clear.

(PHP 5.2.14)

 

Thanks!

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Well if your using it for a password sha1 of md5 could work, but its a one way trip : ) you can't decode it.

 

example:

$plain_input = $_POST['input'];
$super_secret_output_lols = sha1($plain_input);
echo $plain_input.'<br />';
echo $super_secret_output_lols.'<br />';

 

-edit: afterwards you can ofc compare the sha1(userinput) and the sha1(string) which is stored in a database to do a authentication check. but decoding you can't

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Perhaps this is not clear.

 

Let's say that the code I wrote in my initial query is for a form on page 1. This will do a POST to page 2.

 

In page 2's code, I don't want to receive the POST message in plain text. If the "password" input field has a value of "mypassword" that the user typed in, I want to see the encrypted version of that string, not the actual string. I don't want the string to be visible to anyone at any point. How can I do that?

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I have never done it, but i know there is something like OpenSSL. Free certificates to get that extra S behind http : )

But I never did this because my host wants too much money for it. But on xampp (local server) it's pretty easy, if i recall you dont have to fully rewrite any of your scripts. just place https before the domain

-edit: i just tested on xampp and if you just do https://localhost/index.php  it works without changing anything. might want to check it out

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