OK, I get it. However, using the code I get:

*AttributeError: type object 'AES' has no attribute 'new'*

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:00:06 PM UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> You cannot use CRYPT for this purpose. That is a one way hash. The 
> original plaintext cannot be recovered.
>
> You need a symmetric cypher. Web2py comes with the gluon/contrib/aes.py
>
> from gluon.contrib.aes import AES
> key = "your encryption key"
> IV = ' '*16
> db.table.field.filter_in = lambda data,key=key,iv=iv: 
> AES.new(key,AES.MODE_CBC,iv).encrypt(data)
> db.table.field.filter_out = lambda data,key=key,iv=iv: 
> AES.new(key,AES.MODE_CBC,iv).decrypt(data)
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 06:11:49 UTC-5, lesssugar wrote:
>>
>> I have values I would like to store encrypted in my db after user inserts 
>> them. When displayed, the data should get decrypted.
>>
>> All I know about encryption in web2py is that it uses HMAC+SHA512 by 
>> default to store password in auth_user table. How do I customize it to 
>> achieve my goal?
>>
>> *EDIT*
>> I found this: *requires=CRYPT(digest_alg='sha512')* - but I think it's 
>> only crating a hash, right? I guess I need a key to encrypt/decrypt. And 
>> how do I get the values in Row object decrypted after I perform a select? 
>> Can't find much about implementing such mechanism in web2py, unfortunately.
>>
>

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