Personally I handle such information as I would like my own
information to be handled and that's secure as possible even for a
small site/company etc etc. It's still personal information that in
the wrong hands can do way to much damage.

On Nov 3, 4:54 pm, "euromark (munich)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> yeah
> i found 2 behaviours later on by searching with other filters
>
> but one question remains
> how important would that be for a simple online shop?
>
> On 3 Nov., 12:45, WyriHaximus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Did you take a look at this piece of 
> > code?http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/cryptable-behavior
>
> > On Nov 3, 10:30 am, "euromark (munich)" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > i was wondering how to save sensitive information of users
> > > like cc number or bank data?
> > > my guess is they should not be saved as plain "chars" but encrypted in
> > > such a way that if the db is ever going to be hacked the retrieved
> > > data would be useless to anyone without the correct "key"
>
> > > passwords usually are stored sha1-hashed as you dont intend to revert
> > > that (and cant)
> > > but with the above examples you need to
>
> > > is there some kind of behaviour to automatically cipher and save or
> > > decrypt and read record data?
> > > i stumpled uopn Security::cipher() for that matter
>
> > > and how save would that be?
> > > could you re-build the original string from a given ciphered one with
> > > a modern computer? or would it be pointless for "everyday hackers"?
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