Re: save sensitive information

Did you take a look at this piece of code?
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/cryptable-behavior

On Nov 3, 10:30 am, "euromark (munich)" <dereurom...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> i was wondering how to save sensitive information of users
> like cc number or bank data?
> my guess is they should not be saved as plain "chars" but encrypted in
> such a way that if the db is ever going to be hacked the retrieved
> data would be useless to anyone without the correct "key"
>
> passwords usually are stored sha1-hashed as you dont intend to revert
> that (and cant)
> but with the above examples you need to
>
> is there some kind of behaviour to automatically cipher and save or
> decrypt and read record data?
> i stumpled uopn Security::cipher() for that matter
>
> and how save would that be?
> could you re-build the original string from a given ciphered one with
> a modern computer? or would it be pointless for "everyday hackers"?
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