How to Encrypt MySQL Data Using AES Techniques

Mahmud Ahsan
Thinkdiff
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2 min readApr 4, 2021

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Sometimes clients want that the information they collected from the user should be encrypted and stored in a database. Data encryption and decryption is a common technique for secured data. In this article, I’ll show how could you use MySQL's built-in function to encrypt and decrypt data.

Suppose you have a table where you want to encrypt a user’s name & address. So look below the…

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