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hi I have some AES encrypted fields in my database encrypted like
AES_ENCRYPT(data, ‘key’)
but in the database they now look like they have lots of quesitons marks and such like in them
any ideas what I have done wrong?
You should store the data in a
VARBINARYorBLOBcolumn. By using a text column, the client, and possibly the database at some times, is trying to convert the binary, non-text data to text. The question marks are a result of that when the binary data doesn’t match to a text character.