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Provides an AES field for Django that does AES encryption and decryption
using m2secret-py3
_, a Python wrapper for OpenSSL.
.. _m2secret-py3: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/m2secret-py3
Like any other field::
from aesfield.field import AESField
class SomeModel(...):
key = AESField()
AESField takes the following parameters beyond a normal CharField:
aes_prefix
: the prefix to use on fields, defaults to aes:
aes_key
: the key to use in the lookup method to find a suitable key for
this field, defaults to default
Settings:
AES_METHOD
: the module to look in for a key lookup method, if you want
something different from the default, aesfield.default
AES_KEYS
: used by the aesfield.default
method. It's a dictionary of keys
to filenames. Those files must be able to be read by the Django process. It
must have a default
key, unless you specify a specifc one in aes_key
If you add aesfield
to INSTALLED_APPS
you'll get one more command,
generate_aes_keys
. This will generate a new file for each file mentioned in
the AES_KEYS
dictionary. But only if that file does not already exist.
FAQs
Django Model Field that supports AES encryption
We found that django-aesfield demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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