Hello dear friends, Have question for those who know little bit more than me about the encryption system: AES. I am trying to decrypt a AES-encrypted string from a mysql database. The way I usually do it: 1. go to phpmyadmin 2. find the encrypted string 3. paste it on http://aes.online-domain-tools.com/ along with the private decryption key. Usually, it works well - so I'm almost sure there is nothing wrong with the website. However, there is one column in the mysql database that doens't seem to want to decrypt. Here is an example: Encrypted string: '25f9e794323b453885f5181f1b624d0b' Decryption key: '1697f925ec7b' Output: ©»[à.ÊO6.{úèÓÉ What is SHOULD output to: '123456789' (I know that because I registered this string in the database) Here is an example of decryption from another column: Encrypted string: 'e5452838a52fc8ff352602ad14d634e93ed71c03129166901181d9a44e5a2049' Decryption key: '1697f925ec7b' Output: 'user_bitcoin_address6' (correct) WHY is it doing this to me? Is there perhaps another way to decrypt it (such as create a php script and put it on the hosting server) Please help, I have been stuck on this problem for over a week now.