<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mcrypt_get_iv_size</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Mcrypt Encryption Functions" HREF="ref.mcrypt.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mcrypt_get_cipher_name" HREF="function.mcrypt-get-cipher-name.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mcrypt_get_key_size" HREF="function.mcrypt-get-key-size.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-cipher-name.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-key-size.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mcrypt-get-iv-size" ></A >mcrypt_get_iv_size</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN49289" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.2)</P >mcrypt_get_iv_size -- Returns the size of the IV belonging to a specific cipher/mode combination</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN49292" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >mcrypt_get_iv_size</B > ( resource td)<BR ></BR >int <B CLASS="methodname" >mcrypt_get_iv_size</B > ( string cipher, string mode)<BR ></BR ><P > The first prototype is when linked against libmcrypt 2.2.x, the second when linked against libmcrypt 2.4.x or higher. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_get_iv_size()</B > returns the size of the Initialisation Vector (IV) in bytes. On error the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. If the IV is ignored in the specified cipher/mode combination zero is returned. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >cipher</I ></TT > is one of the MCRYPT_ciphername constants of the name of the algorithm as string. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mode</I ></TT > is one of the MCRYPT_MODE_modename constants of one of "ecb", "cbc", "cfb", "ofb", "nofb" or "stream". </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >td</I ></TT > is the resource that is returned by <A HREF="function.mcrypt-module-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_module_open()</B ></A >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN49321" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <A HREF="function.mcrypt-create-iv.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_create_iv()</B ></A > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $size = mcrypt_get_iv_size (MCRYPT_CAST_256, MCRYPT_MODE_CFB); $size = mcrypt_get_iv_size ('des', 'ecb'); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mcrypt-create-iv.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_create_iv()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-cipher-name.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-key-size.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mcrypt.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mcrypt_get_key_size</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >