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ENCRYPT

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Syntax

ENCRYPT(str[,salt])

Description

Encrypts a string using the Unix crypt() system call, returning an encrypted binary string. The salt argument should be a string with at least two characters or the returned result will be NULL. If no salt argument is given, a random value of sufficient length is used.

It is not recommended to use ENCRYPT() with utf16, utf32 or ucs2 multi-byte character sets because the crypt() system call expects a string terminated with a zero byte.

Note that the underlying crypt() system call may have some limitations, such as ignoring all but the first eight characters.

If the have_crypt system variable is set to NO (because the crypt() system call is not available), the ENCRYPT function will always return NULL.

Examples

SELECT ENCRYPT('encrypt me');
+-----------------------+
| ENCRYPT('encrypt me') |
+-----------------------+
| 4I5BsEx0lqTDk         |
+-----------------------+

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