Replacing mcrypt_encrypt using MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 with openssl_encrypt

As you guys probably know, the extension mcrypt will be deprecated on php 7.1.

I use to maintain a "legacy" application that I want to migrate eventually to this version so I ran the tests and verified that I can't get 100% of coverage anymore, since there's a piece of code that use the following code:

$key = 'sA*(DH';

// initialization vector
$iv = md5(md5($key));
$output = base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, md5($key), $string,     MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv));

I tried to port this piece of code to openssl_encrypt using this code

$key = md5('sA*(DH');
$iv = md5($key);
echo base64_encode(openssl_encrypt($data, "aes-256-cbc", $key, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv));

But I have 2 problems with this:

The IV lenght should be 16 chars (and md5 gives me 32), so I get a PHP Warning
The output it's not the same (even if I truncate to 16 chars)

Anyone had similar problems (or know how to fix it?)

BTW: I'm using the dev master version of PHP (supposed to be 7.1.0 alpha 3).

Solution

Yet another tested solution taking and returning ANSI text to replace Mcrypt function with the openssl_encrypt() and openssl_decrypt():

//Return encrypted string
public function stringEncrypt ($plainText, $cryptKey = '7R7zX2Urc7qvjhkr') {

  $cipher   = 'aes-128-cbc';

  if (in_array($cipher, openssl_get_cipher_methods()))
  {
    $ivlen = openssl_cipher_iv_length($cipher);
    $iv = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($ivlen);
    $ciphertext_raw = openssl_encrypt(
      $plainText, $cipher, $cryptKey, $options=OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv);
    $hmac = hash_hmac('sha256', $ciphertext_raw, $cryptKey, $as_binary=true);
    $encodedText = base64_encode( $iv.$hmac.$ciphertext_raw );
  }

  return $encodedText;
}


//Return decrypted string
public function stringDecrypt ($encodedText, $cryptKey = '7R7zX2Urc7qvjhkr') {

  $c = base64_decode($encodedText);
  $cipher   = 'aes-128-cbc';

  if (in_array($cipher, openssl_get_cipher_methods()))
  {
    $ivlen = openssl_cipher_iv_length($cipher);
    $iv = substr($c, 0, $ivlen);
    $hmac = substr($c, $ivlen, $sha2len=32);
    $ivlenSha2len = $ivlen+$sha2len;
    $ciphertext_raw = substr($c, $ivlen+$sha2len);
    $plainText = openssl_decrypt(
      $ciphertext_raw, $cipher, $cryptKey, $options=OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv);
  }

  return $plainText;
}