Django Encrypted Model Fields
About
This is a fork of
https://github.com/foundertherapy/django-cryptographic-fields. It has
been renamed, and updated to properly support Python3 and latest
versions of Django.
django-encrypted-model-fields
is set of fields that wrap standard
Django fields with encryption provided by the python cryptography
library. These fields are much more compatible with a 12-factor design
since they take their encryption key from the settings file instead of a
file on disk used by keyczar
.
While keyczar is an excellent tool to use for encryption, it's not
compatible with Python 3, and it requires, for hosts like Heroku, that
you either check your key file into your git repository for deployment,
or implement manual post-deployment processing to write the key stored
in an environment variable into a file that keyczar can read.
Generating an Encryption Key
There is a Django management command generate_encryption_key
provided
with the encrypted_model_fields
library. Use this command to generate
a new encryption key to set as settings.FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY
:
./manage.py generate_encryption_key
Running this command will print an encryption key to the terminal, which
can be configured in your environment or settings file.
NOTE: This command will ONLY work in a CLEAN, NEW django project that
does NOT import encrypted_model_fields in any of it's apps. IF you are
already importing encrypted_model_fields, try running this in a python
shell instead:
import os
import base64
new_key = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32))
print(new_key)
Getting Started
$ pip install django-encrypted-model-fields
Add "encrypted_model_fields" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'encrypted_model_fields',
)
django-encrypted-model-fields
expects the encryption key to be
specified using FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY
in your project's settings.py
file. For example, to load it from the local environment:
import os
FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY = os.environ.get('FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY', '')
To use an encrypted field in a Django model, use one of the fields from
the encrypted_model_fields
module:
from encrypted_model_fields.fields import EncryptedCharField
class EncryptedFieldModel(models.Model):
encrypted_char_field = EncryptedCharField(max_length=100)
For fields that require max_length
to be specified, the Encrypted
variants of those fields will automatically increase the size of the
database field to hold the encrypted form of the content. For example, a
3 character CharField will automatically specify a database field size
of 100 characters when EncryptedCharField(max_length=3)
is specified.
Due to the nature of the encrypted data, filtering by values contained
in encrypted fields won't work properly. Sorting is also not supported.
Development Environment
Added Tox for testing with different versions of Django and Python. To get started:
pip install -r requirements/dev.txt
using pyenv
add the requisite python interpreters::
pyenv install 3.6.15
pyenv install 3.7.12
pyenv install 3.8.12
pyenv install 3.9.10
pyenv install 3.10.2
Add the requisite versions to the local version::
pyenv local 3.6.15 3.7.12 3.8.12 3.9.10 3.10.2
Run tox
::
tox