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Secrecy holds your sensitive data as safe as possible from leaking.

It provides safety for following events:

• accidental __toString() conversion, e.g. when logging;
• disallows clone to keep the data in a single place;
• prevents leaking in \serialize(), var_dump() and var_export();
• rejects unsafe input from \unserialize();

Disclaimer

This library does not provide any password hashing functionality, nor any sort of in-memory "encryption" of the data. It only tries its best to prevent leaking the sensitive data in various modes and places.

It's not 100% bullet-proof, since it requires a separate stream to keep the password, which can be accessed at any time.

Usage

<?php

use Hktr92\Secrecy\Secrecy;
use Hktr92\Secrecy\SecrecyFactory;

/** @var Secrecy $password */
$password = SecrecyFactory::create("my super secret value")->unwrap();

echo "User password is $password"; // outputs "User password is <redacted>"

$pdo = new PDO(...);
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO `users` SET `email` = ?, `password` = ?");
$stmt->execute(['user@example.com', password_hash($password->expose())]); // works as expected

Major caveat: var_export()

Secrecy uses stream resource to hide the secret value from being leaked by var_export().

How it behaves

This library was built from grounds-up to prevent as much as possible any chaotic behavior of PHP. Thus, the library guarantees that you'll receive either a valid string or a Throwable in case of error.

The library only panics (e.g. throws an InvalidArgumentException) when the constructor doesn't receive a valid resource.