I wasn’t asking as how to encrypt the file itself, but how to incorporate it in to web2py’s existing excellent form upload and download system. Assuming that we have functions encrypt(file, password) and decrypt(file, password) which return the encrypted and decrypted file respectively.
From: Massimo Di Pierro Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 13.31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [web2py] Re: web2py: encrypt uploaded files Perhaps this can be useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6309958/encrypting-a-file-with-rsa-in-python (look at code in first answer) On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:35:05 UTC-5, naveed wrote: Thanks Massimo for getting back. I can’t use an encrypted file system as when the file system is mounted, it’s totally open. Every file can be encrypted with the same master password. I’m thinking of storing this master password which is itself encrypted using the user’s password (or it’s hash) in the auth_user table. On a related note, I am planning to encrypt some columns of other tables using the same master password. Your thoughts on this approach? From: Massimo Di Pierro Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12.13 To: [email protected] Subject: [web2py] Re: web2py: encrypt uploaded files What are the specs? Can you store them in an encrypted file system? can you encrypt them with the same password? Should every file be encrypted with a different password? Where should the passwords be stored? On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:54:24 UTC-5, naveed wrote: I need to encrypt uploaded files in web2py (for a HIPAA compliant application) preferably with AES. How can I accomplish this?
