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MySQL AES_DECRYPT() function

AES_DECRYPT() function

MySQL AES_DECRYPT() function decrypts an encrypted string using AES algorithm to return the original string. It returns NULL if detects invalid data.

Syntax:

AES_DECRYPT(crypt_str, key_str);

Arguments:

Name Description
crypt_str An encrypted string.
key_str String to use to decrypt crypt_str.

Syntax Diagram:

MySQL AES_DECRYPT() Function - Syntax Diagram

MySQL Version: 5.6


Example:

Code:

SELECT   AES_DECRYPT(AES_ENCRYPT('mytext','mykeystring'),
'mykeystring');

Explanation:

The above MySQL statement decrypts the encrypted string 'mytext' using mykeystring and returns the original string mytext.

Sample Output:

mysql> SELECT AES_DECRYPT(AES_ENCRYPT('mytext','mykeystring'),'mykeystring');
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| AES_DECRYPT(AES_ENCRYPT('mytext','mykeystring'),'mykeystring') |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| mytext                                                         | 
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Sample table: testtable


Code:

SELECT description, AES_DECRYPT(description,'passw') 
FROM testtable;

Explanation:

The above MySQL statement retrieves the decrypted data from encrypted 'description' column from 'testtable'.

Sample Output:

mysql> SELECT description, AES_DECRYPT(description,'passw') 
    -> FROM testtable;
+---------------------------+----------------------------------+
| description               | AES_DECRYPT(description,'passw') |
+---------------------------+----------------------------------+
| ^5[@·˜,IÜç¦Éý          | mytext                           | 
| Ô£^]Žþª_‹m              | NULL                             | 
| ÿ»(õ 2ñ«QèªöjD¸=ËTú9Ž! | NULL                             | 
+---------------------------+----------------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.04 sec)

PHP script:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>example-aes_decrypt - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<h2>Retrieve decrypted data from encrypted 
'description' column from 'testtable' : </h2>";
echo "<table border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse;border-color: silver;'>";
echo "<tr style='font-weight: bold;'>";
echo "<td width='100' align='center'>Year and week of 2007-12-31</td><td width='100' 
align='center'>Year and week of 2008-01-01</td>";
echo "</tr>";
include("../dbopen.php");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT description,
AES_DECRYPT(description,'passw')
FROM testtable");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" . $row['description'] . "</td>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" . 
$row["AES_DECRYPT(description,'passw')"] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>

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