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# encode:crypt — Symmetric-key encryption

ENCODE:CRYPT encryptes plaintext with a key according to a given cipher.

ENCODE:CRYPT is the complement of the DECODE:CRYPT operation.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name for ciphertext |
| var_iv | var |  | Result variable name for initialization vector |
| cipher | string |  | Cipher |
| key | string |  | Cryptographic key |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string