encrypting and decrypting content in Drupal

You are viewing a wiki page. You are welcome to join the group and then edit it. Be bold!

There are at least two modules to do encryption in Drupal. This page compares those modules to help people choose a good one.

Last updated: October 1, 2012

  • Encrypt

    • Includes multiple encryption methods from simple to complex depending on libraries available on the server
    • Focused on being a simple API that doesn't do much on its own
    • Uses CTools plugins for encryption methods and key providers
    • Contains unit tests for all the features
    • Includes a sub-module that makes it easy for developers to encrypt/decrypt any FAPI field in a way that is transparent to users
    • 568 lines of php code, 42% comments
    • 567 reported installed sites
  • AES

    • Includes one encyrption method - AES
    • Includes functionality to store all users passwords in an encrypted form (in addition to core's hashed version) and allows admins to views these passwords via the web interface
    • A dependency of the Salesforce Suite module
    • Has no simpletests
    • 637 lines of php code, 10.4% comments
    • 2,232 reported installed sites

Comments

I just did some work on the

greggles's picture

I just did some work on the Encrypt module and have released a 7.x-2.0-beta3 release.

This comparison is somewhat biased towards the Encrypt module since I'm more familiar with its features. I encourage others to make it less biased based on their knowledge of the modules :)

Similar Module Review

Group organizers

Group notifications

This group offers an RSS feed. Or subscribe to these personalized, sitewide feeds:

Hot content this week