And you basically laid out a recipe for incurring technical debt.<p>What&#x27;s wrong with instead looking at some established best practices &#x2F; suggestions and using those for guidance.  What if they said they were looking to do this with encryption?  Would you say &quot;Just hash it with ROT-13 and put it in the DB&quot;?  Of course not.  Others have gone before us...why not learn from where they&#x27;ve done well and not so well?