What’s this upcoming “Encryption” component of Symfony 6.1?

You may say it’s to encrypt data. Yes. But no. Let’s clarify.

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Did you ever try to encrypt data with vanilla PHP? Well, I did (try), and I definitely don’t want to do it again. Let me explain.

One of the most famous library to do encryption with PHP is called OpenSSL. It does the job right, and it…