Encoder max string length

[JeromeGill]

Does anyone have any suggestions how to handle really big strings? (mysql dumps is my use case)

line 323 of ParagonIE\Halite\Symmetric\Crypto calls
(string) ParagonIE\ConstantTime\Base64UrlSafe::encode(message)

The output is truncated to 65534 characters, despite the message being considerably longer.

Do I need to use a different encoder? Any recommendations?

[paragonie-scott]

This isn't a limitation of Halite. This is a limitation of MySQL. Change your column type to a higher size (e.g. MEDIUMTEXT) to allow longer messages.

[JeromeGill]

I thought the same at first, but I can confirm i'm using LONGTEXT, and that it is the line referenced above that does the truncation.

I split the dumps into segments which works fine as a solution. I was just wondering what was going on.

[paragonie-scott]

What version of Halite are you using? What OS? What version of the OS? What version of PHP? Which extensions are enabled?

Because, as far as I can tell, this isn't a bug in our software.

• paragonie/constant_time_encoding@2afa0bb
• 8964da4

Both unit tests are passing for me.

[paragonie-scott]

If you enable strict mode on MySQL, do you get errors when you try to save data to your database?