How to Encrypt-Decrypt .pdf, .docx files in php? - php

Question

I am trying to encrypt/decrypt files in PHP. So far I am successful with .txt files but when it comes to .pdf and .doc or .docx my code fails, i.e. it gives absurd results. Can anyone suggest modification/alternative in my code? Thanks in advance!
Here's the encryption function
function encryptData($value)
{
$key = "Mary has one cat";
$text = $value;
$iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB);
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($iv_size, MCRYPT_RAND);
$crypttext = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, $key, $text, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $iv);
return $crypttext;
}
Here's the decryption function
function decryptData($value)
{
$key = "Mary has one cat";
$crypttext = $value;
$iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB);
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($iv_size, MCRYPT_RAND);
$decrypttext = mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, $key, $crypttext, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $iv);
return trim($decrypttext);
}

Answer 1

I used this blog to help me encrypt/decrypt pdf files on my local machine using openssl_encrypt because mcrypt is deprecated in php7.
First, you get the file contents of the pdf:
$msg = file_get_contents('example.pdf');
Then I called the encryption function written in the blog post:
$msg_encrypted = my_encrypt($msg, $key);
Then I open the file I want to write to and write the new encrypted msg:
$file = fopen('example.pdf', 'wb');
fwrite($file, $msg_encrypted);
fclose($file);
For reference, in case that blog goes down, here are the encryption and decryption functions from the blog:
$key = 'bRuD5WYw5wd0rdHR9yLlM6wt2vteuiniQBqE70nAuhU=';
function my_encrypt($data, $key) {
// Remove the base64 encoding from our key
$encryption_key = base64_decode($key);
// Generate an initialization vector
$iv = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(openssl_cipher_iv_length('aes-256-cbc'));
// Encrypt the data using AES 256 encryption in CBC mode using our encryption key and initialization vector.
$encrypted = openssl_encrypt($data, 'aes-256-cbc', $encryption_key, 0, $iv);
// The $iv is just as important as the key for decrypting, so save it with our encrypted data using a unique separator (::)
return base64_encode($encrypted . '::' . $iv);
}
function my_decrypt($data, $key) {
// Remove the base64 encoding from our key
$encryption_key = base64_decode($key);
// To decrypt, split the encrypted data from our IV - our unique separator used was "::"
list($encrypted_data, $iv) = explode('::', base64_decode($data), 2);
return openssl_decrypt($encrypted_data, 'aes-256-cbc', $encryption_key, 0, $iv);
}