Writing a Custom Model Field for Encryption
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Lately I’ve been learning web development with Django. I have a few projects I’ve been working on and have learned a ton. Something I came across in one of my projects was the need to encrypt fields in the database. Being a DevOps/Security guy I know the whole arguments against and for using encryption on specific database fields. In this case I am storing some usernames and passwords for a site I am scraping, and felt that encryption was better than nothing. I found an article but didn’t like the exact way they were implementing the encryption so I changed it. Below is that implementation:
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