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1. Rhand
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   Posted 9 months ago #

   Has anybody ever created a plugin that makes sure all user email addresses are stored encrypted in the database? A client is worried about email addresses stored in the database and initially asked me if I could make email a non required field for user registration so the email address would not be stored online.

2. bertjh
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Well, you can't really encrypt them without losing the addresses. Unlike a username / password, you'll probably still want to be able to read these normally, e.g. newsletters, reset password.

   You can try to make it harder to understand, though. Try using base64_encode, convert chars to ordinal / hexadecimal.

3. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thanks for the insight Bertjh.

4. bertjh
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   No problem Rhand.

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