JCRYPT-MCRYPT-001

JCryptCipherMcrypt

JCryptCipherMcrypt / 3Des / Blowfish / Simple

Weak and mcrypt-based ciphers were removed. PHP mcrypt is gone too.

JCryptCipherMcryptCryptCipherCrypto / Sodium / OpenSSL

Dies at Joomla 3 → 4J3: Works nativelyJ4: Removed — fatalJ6: Removed — fatalBC plugin: no — already dead on J4Architecture change — no auto-fixPHP

What you will see

  • Class "JCryptCipherMcrypt" not found
  • Class "JCryptCipher3Des" not found
  • Call to undefined function mcrypt_encrypt

Symptoms people search

cannot decrypt config · mcrypt

Replace this code

Swap JCryptCipherMcrypt for CryptCipherCrypto / Sodium / OpenSSL.

Joomla 3

Remove or stop calling this

$crypt = new JCrypt(new JCryptCipherMcrypt());

Joomla 4 / 6

Use this instead

Use Joomla\CMS\Crypt\Cipher\CryptoCipher. Do not use mcrypt.

How to fix it

  1. 1Re-encrypt data with Sodium/OpenSSL ciphers.
  2. 2You cannot decrypt old mcrypt blobs without a one-off migrator.

Also known as

mcrypt · JCryptCipher3Des · JCryptCipherBlowfish · JCryptCipherSimple · hasStrongPasswordSupport

There is no 1:1 swap for this one. The architecture changed. If you cannot rewrite it, Infyways can.

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