Syntax
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ENCODE(str,pass_str)

Description
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ENCODE is not considered cryptographically secure, and should not be used for
password encryption.

Encrypt str using pass_str as the password. To decrypt the result, use
DECODE().

The result is a binary string of the same length as str.

The strength of the encryption is based on how good the random generator is.

It is not recommended to rely on the encryption performed by the ENCODE
function. Using a salt value (changed when a password is updated) will improve
matters somewhat, but for storing passwords, consider a more cryptographically
secure function, such as SHA2().

Examples
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ENCODE('not so secret text', CONCAT('random_salt','password'))

URL: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/encode/