A good way to encrypt database fields?
If you are storing things like passwords, you can do this:

store users' passwords as their SHA256 hashes
get the user's password
hash it
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check it against the stored password
You can create a SHA-256 hash in Python by using the hashlib module.
Hope this helps
I've been asked to encrypt various db fields within the db.
Problem is that these fields need be decrypted after being read.

I'm using Django and SQL Server 2005.
Any good ideas?