class Cipher

Ruby on Rails 8.0.4

Since v7.0.10

Available in: v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

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The algorithm used for encrypting and decrypting Message objects.

It uses AES-256-GCM. It will generate a random IV for non deterministic encryption (default) or derive an initialization vector from the encrypted content for deterministic encryption.

See Cipher::Aes256Gcm.

Inherits from

Object

Namespace

Classes

ActiveRecord::Encryption::Cipher::Aes256Gcm

Extends

ActiveSupport::Autoload

Constants

ActiveRecord::Encryption::Cipher::DEFAULT_ENCODING

Methods (defined here)

# decrypt
# encrypt
# iv_length
# key_length

Private methods

(2) Implementation detail — not part of the public API.

# cipher_for
# try_to_decrypt_with_each

Methods (inherited)

From ActiveSupport::Autoload (5)

# autoload
# autoload_at
# autoload_under
# eager_autoload
# eager_load!

From Object (17)

# acts_like?
# blank?
# deep_dup
# duplicable?
# html_safe?
# in?
# instance_values
# instance_variable_names
# presence
# presence_in
# present?
# to_param
# to_query
# try
# try!
# with
# with_options

From ActiveSupport::NumericWithFormat (2)

# to_formatted_s
# to_fs