Why is AES_DECRYPT returning null?
I've found similar questions, but no clear answer for this question. I have this table: CREATE DATABASE testDB DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; CREATE TABLE testTable ( firstName binary(32) not null, lastName binary(32) not null /* Other non-binary fields omitted */ ) engine=INNODB DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; This statement executes just fine: INSERT INTO testTable (firstName) VALUES (AES_ENCRYPT('Testname', 'test')); But, this returns NULL: SELECT AES_DECRYPT(firstName, 'test') FROM testTable; Why does this return NULL? Fwiw, this returns "testValue"