[python-win32] encoding decoding for python2.5

[Preston Landers]

Hi,

I think people might be reluctant to give you an in-depth tutorial
here on security and encryption.  For one thing it's not really the
right place - this is the mailing list for the PyWin32 extensions and
related topics, not for the general topic of securing information in
databases.

Also it's pretty clear that you're a bit of a neophyte at this (no
offense intended, it may also be a language issue) so people might be
reluctant to give you simple advice (one or two paragraph's worth) and
then you might get a false sense of security that you've got the
"security issue" handled. Securing a web app is a complex process and
it involves way more than simply encoding a few fields.

Personally, I would focus on securing overall access to your database
instead of trying to secure particular fields within the database.  I
wouldn't recommend giving untrusted users direct access (even
read-only) to a production database like this.  I would mediate
everything through access controls in my web app.  If you still want
to encrypt fields, there's packages out there like PyCrypto you can
investigate.  MySQL also seems to contain some encryption functions
though I'm not personally familiar with them.

Good luck,
Preston


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, ad3d <alhaddeshpande at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dude,
>
>   i was just trying to develop a software in which some sensative data like
> employee salary are stored..so for the data security purpose i was trying to
> find a way out... i tried using chilkat but its full version is not
> available..thats why i was trying for some help on this topic..i am using
> MySQL as database..and using python2.5 and all the fields i am trying to
> store are strings..no one should be able to view salaries or review
> information of employees from database tht was d agenda..
>
> Thanx
> ad3d
>
>
>
> Vernon Cole-3 wrote:
>>
>> Dear person:
>>
>> There are lots of ways to encode and decode data.  You'll need to provide
>> some more information about the use you intend in order to get good
>> advise.
>> Do you just want to protect something from prying eyes on one workstation?
>> How secure does it have to be? Are you sending the data to someone else,
>> who
>> must then decode it?  Is it in some compressed format (like audio or
>> picture) and you need to read and write it?  Are you perhaps a terrorist
>> with whom we prefer not to share information about cryptography, and thats
>> why you don't have a name?  Or do you only want to change a character
>> string
>> from one encoding to another?
>>
>> Provide more details, please.
>> --
>> Vernon
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:49 AM, ad3d <alhaddeshpande at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>>   I want to encode and decode some data using python 2.5. can someone plz
>>> suggest me some algorithms(freeware not trial version) for the same..
>>>
>>> thanx in advance
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