symmetric-encryption 
Introduction
Any project that wants to meet PCI compliance has to ensure that the data is encrypted whilst in flight and at rest. Amongst many other other requirements all passwords in configuration files have to be encrypted
This Gem helps achieve compliance by supporting encryption of data in a simple and consistent way
Symmetric Encryption uses OpenSSL to encrypt and decrypt data, and can therefore expose all the encryption algorithms supported by OpenSSL.
Documentation
For complete documentation see: http://reidmorrison.github.io/symmetric-encryption/
Changes with V4
- V4 takes advantage of Ruby V2 named parameters and as such only works with Ruby V2, and greater. This also means that for JRuby users it must be run in V2 mode if not already running JRuby 9.0.0.0 or greater. Users requiring compatibility with Ruby 1.8.7 and JRuby 1.7 ( 1.9 mode ) should continue to run Symmetric Encryption V3
New features in V1.1 and V2
Ability to randomly generate a new initialization vector (iv) with every encryption and put the iv in the encrypted data as its header, without having to use SymmetricEncryption::Writer
With file encryption randomly generate a new key and initialization vector (iv) with every file encryption and put the key and iv in the encrypted data as its header which is encrypted using the global key and iv
Support for compression via SymmetricEncryption.encrypt, attr_encrypted and Mongoid fields
SymmetricEncryption.encrypt has two additional optional parameters:
random_iv [true|false] Whether the encypted value should use a random IV every time the field is encrypted. It is recommended to set this to true where feasible. If the encrypted value could be used as part of a SQL where clause, or as part of any lookup, then it must be false. Setting random_iv to true will result in a different encrypted output for the same input string. Note: Only set to true if the field will never be used as part of the where clause in an SQL query. Note: When random_iv is true it will add a 8 byte header, plus the bytes to store the random IV in every returned encrypted string, prior to the encoding if any. Default: false Highly Recommended where feasible: true
compress [true|false] Whether to compress str before encryption Should only be used for large strings since compression overhead and the overhead of adding the 'magic' header may exceed any benefits of compression Note: Adds a 6 byte header prior to encoding, only if :random_iv is false Default: false
## Upgrading from earlier versions to SymmetricEncryption V3
In version 3 of SymmetricEncryption, the following changes have been made that
may have backward compatibility issues:
* SymmetricEncryption.decrypt no longer rotates through all the decryption keys
when previous ciphers fail to decrypt the encrypted string.
In a very small, yet significant number of cases it was possible to decrypt data
using the incorrect key. Clearly the data returned was garbage, but it still
returned a string of data instead of throwing an exception.
See SymmetricEncryption.select_cipher to supply your own custom logic to
determine the correct cipher to use when the encrypted string does not have a
header and multiple ciphers are defined.
* Configuration file format prior to V1 is no longer supported
* New configuration option has been added to support setting encryption keys
from environment variables
* Cipher.parse_magic_header! now returns a Struct instead of an Array
* New config options :encrypted_key and :encrypted_iv to support setting
the encryption key in environment variables
Meta
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* Code: `git clone git://github.com/reidmorrison/symmetric-encryption.git`
* Home: <https://github.com/reidmorrison/symmetric-encryption>
* Issues: <http://github.com/reidmorrison/symmetric-encryption/issues>
* Gems: <http://rubygems.org/gems/symmetric-encryption>
This project uses [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
Author
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[Reid Morrison](https://github.com/reidmorrison)
Contributors
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* [M. Scott Ford](https://github.com/mscottford)
* [Adam St. John](https://github.com/astjohn)
License
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Copyright 2012, 2013, 2014 Reid Morrison
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Disclaimer
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Although this library has assisted in meeting PCI Compliance and has passed
previous PCI audits, it in no way guarantees that PCI Compliance will be
achieved by anyone using this library.