Not off topic, but you are on the right track.  I assume you already
know about the SQLObject _get_someattribute() and _set_someattribute()
trick which you can use to automate encryption on the way into and out
of the database.

On 7/30/07, Jim Steil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm wondering if TG has a utility that I can use to encrypt a string
> value that I'm storing in my database.  Ideally I'd build the
> encryption/decryption into my SO model but don't know if there are any
> encryption functions included in TG or not.  I am currently using the
> identity encryption to encrypt my passwords in my db, but in this case
> would need to be able to decrypt an encrypted string as well.  I've done
> some googling and see that pycrypt seems to be a regularly used python
> tool for encryption.  Before I go the route of importing that into my
> model and putting in the required code, I thought I run it by the TG
> list and see if people would recommend implementing this in a different way.
>
> I apologize if this seems off-topic....
>
>     -Jim
>
> >
>


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