Key management

Securely managing encryption keys is critical. Implement proper key management practices, including safe storage and access control mechanisms, to ensure data security

Encryption keys

Take care of the encryption keys!

In your tests you can set settings.DEBUG = True and settings.AUTO_CREATE_KEYS = True so that keys are generated for your tests. Encryption keys will not automatically generate on a production system (DEBUG=False) unless settings.AUTO_CREATE_KEYS = True.

By default assumes your test module is runtests.py. You can changes this by setting settings.DJANGO_CRYPTO_FIELDS_TEST_MODULE.

When are encryption keys loaded?

The encryption keys are loaded as a side effect of accessing the keys module. The keys module is imported in this apps AppConfig just before import_models. During runtime the encryption keys are stored in the encryption_keys global.

See module apps.py, module keys.py and fields.BaseField constructor.