[Rails] Re: Encrypting large amounts of text

2009-05-11 Thread heisam
> Sam, you mentioned that in your app, every user has his own pair of > keys and the private key is stored encrypted with the users password. > How many users does your system have?  I was also considering trying > to set something like this up, but I believe it will be far to much > overhead for

[Rails] Re: Encrypting large amounts of text

2009-05-08 Thread Simon
Hi, Thanks for the responses. Sam, you mentioned that in your app, every user has his own pair of keys and the private key is stored encrypted with the users password. How many users does your system have? I was also considering trying to set something like this up, but I believe it will be far

[Rails] Re: Encrypting large amounts of text

2009-05-06 Thread Robert Walker
Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application where I want to be able to encrypt large amounts > of text before storing them to my DB (MySQL Text field - might be > switched to a Blob). I have an idea of how to do this, but was > wondering what the general consensus is within the community regard

[Rails] Re: Encrypting large amounts of text

2009-05-06 Thread heisam
Hi Simon, the combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption as used in Strongbox works and performs quite well for me. The author of Strongbox has explained in detail how to do this in his blog (http:// stuff-things.net/2008/02/05/encrypting-lots-of-sensitive-data-with- ruby-on-rails/). As f