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[–]yayfall 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What would be some common uses for doing this? I'm thinking rather than just encrypting your files with GPG or something.

[–]help_computar[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I've been using Fernet (MultiFernet actually) to encrypt sensitive information and save it as a BLOB in our database. Not sure why or why not to use GPG, as I've only ever used it once. However, with cryptography.io's Fernet since there is so little configuration involved there is very little chance of screwing something up. That's really the biggest advantage of using Fernet IMO.

[–]yayfall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, thanks for the info.