RailsConf 2023 - ActiveRecord::Encryption; Stop Hackers from... by Matthew Langlois, Kylie Stradley

ActiveRecord::Encryption; Stop Hackers from Reading your Data by Matthew Langlois, Kylie Stradley

Have you ever wondered how to encrypt data in your Rails application but weren’t sure where to get started? We’ll briefly talk about why you would want to encrypt data, and then discuss how you can get started with encrypting columns in your Rails application including pitfalls and successes we encountered while implementing ActiveRecord::Encryption at GitHub. Attendees will be confident in making a decision to implement ActiveRecord::Encryption in their application.

[nilematotle]

Good answer for deterministic encryption.

[nilematotle]

That’s a pretty simple way to address nonce reuse for most use cases. Nice.