PHP ActiveX Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

openssl enc decrypt

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Demonstrates how to decrypt a file that was encrypted using "openssl enc".

This example shows how to decrypt what was created using this openssl command:

openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.xml -out hamlet.enc -pass file:./secret.txt

This example shows how to do this:

openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.enc -out hamlet_dec.xml -pass file:./secret.txt

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$crypt = new COM("Chilkat.Crypt2");

//  Use aes-256-cbc
$crypt->CryptAlgorithm = 'aes';
$crypt->CipherMode = 'cbc';
$crypt->KeyLength = 256;

//  We'll need to set the hash algorithm to either MD5 or SHA256.
//  openssl version 1.0.* or earlier used MD5 by default
//  openssl version 1.1.* uses SHA-256 for the password to secret key derivation.

//  For example, if openssl 1.1.0 was used, we should do this:
$crypt->HashAlgorithm = 'sha256';

//  This example assumes openssl 1.0.2 was used to encrypt what we're now decrypting:
$crypt->HashAlgorithm = 'md5';

//  The openssl command we are duplicating is:
//  
//     openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.enc -out hamlet_dec.xml -pass file:./secret.txt
//  
//  The file secret.txt contains the word "secret".  We could write code to load the contents
//  of secret.txt, but instead we'll just do this:
$crypt->SetEncodedKey('secret','openssl');

//  Load the file to be decrypted.
$fileData = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $fileData->LoadFile('qa_data/openssl_enc/hamlet.enc');

//  Decrypt
$crypt->VerboseLogging = 1;
$success = $crypt->DecryptBd($fileData);
print $crypt->LastErrorText . "\n";

//  Save the decrypted output.
$success = $fileData->WriteFile('c:/temp/qa_output/hamlet_dec.xml');

print 'success = ' . $success . "\n";

?>