Laravel's application key - what it is and how does it work?

Question

From what I know, the app key in Laravel provides protection for session and sensitive data, but what I want to understand is how exactly does it work? What is the purpose o

Answer 1

Actually Application Key is used for all the encrypted data in laravel.If the application key is not configured in .env, your all sessions and other encrypted data will not be secure!

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