A good way to encrypt database fields?
Yeah. Tell whoever told you to get real. Makes no / little sense. If it is about the stored values - enterprise edition 2008 can store encrypted DB files.
Otherwise, if you really need to (with all disadvantages) just encrypt them and store them as byte fields.
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?