Laravel - DecryptException: 'The MAC is invalid'

Question

In laravel for registration I\'m using encrypt algorithm for password instead of inbuilt bcrypt function in Laravel because to get password and send it to mail when password

Answer 1

In case none of the above helped you, as it was in my case, well, some people mention clearing the cookies, sadly that is ambiguous to say the least.

I tried everything from the above, clear cache in laravel and the browser, hard reload and all..With no success!

SOLUTION: just CLOSE the browser entirely, and reopen it. In my case, I was using both Chrome and Opera, and they were both messing up. I had to close them BOTH, then reopen them for the MAC problem to disappear.