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EncryptSymmetric()

EncryptSymmetric is an AMPscript function in the encryption & encoding category. AES-CBC; round-trips locally, but ciphertext will not byte-match SFMC (different key derivation).

Syntax

EncryptSymmetric(value, cipher, pwdKeyName, password, [saltKeyName, salt, ivKeyName, iv])

Example

%%[ SET @enc = EncryptSymmetric("my secret", "aes", @null, "password1", @null, "8675309", @null, "0016CA1F4D0F8E45") ]%%
%%=v(@enc)=%%

25mh6tZAbOBDvRb6ntRO6g==

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

EncryptSymmetric in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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