Which is safer/faster

Hello friends, which procedure do you believe is more secure and also performs well for encrypting data such as personal documents and other sensitive information?

Remembering that the password i already use password_hash for security.

Today I have three functional methods:

• AES_ENCRYPT / AES_DECRYPT directly from the CI4 model. ( in use )
  
• CI4 Encryption Library
  
• PHP Vanilla Sodium Encrypt ( also in use )
  

I'm looking for a safe method that also makes it easy for me to work with it in the database.

My working model with AES ENCRYPTION:




Result:






Thanks for help.

See https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libra...ption.html
CI4 Encryption Library uses PHP extension OpenSSL or Sodium.
And CodeIgniter’s OpenSSL handler uses the AES-256-CTR cipher.

About AES_ENCRYPT()
See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/...es-encrypt
By default these functions implement AES with a 128-bit key length.

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