I'm trying to use Libsodium to encrypt and decrypt strings, but I have a question! I'm currently using two functions called safeEncrypt and safeDecrypt, this is the code:
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
/**
* Encrypt a message
*
* @param string $message - message to encrypt
* @param string $key - encryption key
* @return string
* @throws RangeException
*/
function safeEncrypt(string $message, string $key): string
{
if (mb_strlen($key, '8bit') !== SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_KEYBYTES) {
throw new RangeException('Key is not the correct size (must be 32 bytes).');
}
$nonce = random_bytes(SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES);
$cipher = base64_encode(
$nonce.
sodium_crypto_secretbox(
$message,
$nonce,
$key
)
);
sodium_memzero($message);
sodium_memzero($key);
return $cipher;
}
/**
* Decrypt a message
*
* @param string $encrypted - message encrypted with safeEncrypt()
* @param string $key - encryption key
* @return string
* @throws Exception
*/
function safeDecrypt(string $encrypted, string $key): string
{
$decoded = base64_decode($encrypted);
$nonce = mb_substr($decoded, 0, SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES, '8bit');
$ciphertext = mb_substr($decoded, SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES, null, '8bit');
$plain = sodium_crypto_secretbox_open(
$ciphertext,
$nonce,
$key
);
if (!is_string($plain)) {
throw new Exception('Invalid MAC');
}
sodium_memzero($ciphertext);
sodium_memzero($key);
return $plain;
}
I'm then using these functions like this:
<?php
// This refers to the previous code block.
require "safeCrypto.php";
// Do this once then store it somehow:
$key = random_bytes(SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_KEYBYTES);
$message = 'We are all living in a yellow submarine';
$ciphertext = safeEncrypt($message, $key);
$plaintext = safeDecrypt($ciphertext, $key);
echo "Encrypted: " . $ciphertext;
echo "
";
echo "Decrypted: " . $plaintext;
echo "
";
echo "--------";
echo "
";
echo "KEY: " . $key;
My concern is that the key isn't in normal ascii, it's something else that I don't quite understand, like this: &w��x�QK��|D���z�����
Can I somehow modify the functions to make them generate and use keys that look something like this: S3d3F45g6H7jJ8kG7
? I need it like this so that I can pass the keys in URL.
Thanks for any advice!