You put it on the 'accept' or else you make it a job in cron.
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:35:36 PM UTC-7, naveed wrote: > > I wasn’t asking as how to encrypt the file itself, but how to > incorporate it in to web2py’s existing excellent form upload and download > system. Assuming that we have functions encrypt(file, password) and > decrypt(file, password) which return the encrypted and decrypted file > respectively. > > > *From:* Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2012 13.31 > *To:* web2py@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [web2py] Re: web2py: encrypt uploaded files > > Perhaps this can be useful: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6309958/encrypting-a-file-with-rsa-in-python > (look at code in first answer) > > On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:35:05 UTC-5, naveed wrote: >> >> Thanks Massimo for getting back. I can’t use an encrypted file system >> as when the file system is mounted, it’s totally open. Every file can be >> encrypted with the same master password. I’m thinking of storing this >> master password which is itself encrypted using the user’s password (or >> it’s hash) in the auth_user table. >> >> On a related note, I am planning to encrypt some columns of other tables >> using the same master password. Your thoughts on this approach? >> >> >> *From:* Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12.13 >> *To:* web2py@googlegroups.com >> *Subject:* [web2py] Re: web2py: encrypt uploaded files >> >> What are the specs? Can you store them in an encrypted file system? can >> you encrypt them with the same password? Should every file be encrypted >> with a different password? Where should the passwords be stored? >> >> On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:54:24 UTC-5, naveed wrote: >>> >>> I need to encrypt uploaded files in web2py (for a HIPAA compliant >>> application) preferably with AES. How can I accomplish this? >>> >>
