Guys, I want to encourage you to stay on topic.

The issue here is encryption for data store in App Engine. As several
posters have pointed out, there are no easy solutions for this. A shift
towards the cloud has all the implications of not being able to physically
secure the data. Using a service such as App Engine, something we common
describe as a platform-as-a-service, you have much less control over your
data, though we will bear the responsibility of providing as much security
as we can. There is probably a workable compromise somewhere involving where
we store cryptographic keys and ACLs, but for the foreseeable future, you
will have to accept that if you are running your software on Google's
platform, then Google's platform will be able to access your data. If you
build a rich client, you can encrypt the data on the client.

-- 
Ikai Lan
Developer Relations, Google App Engine
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ikai
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