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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:42:06+00:00

Anyone figured out a good way to pull encrypted values from db through entity

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Anyone figured out a good way to pull encrypted values from db through entity framework 4?

I got a MySql db with some columns encrypted with des_encrypt and need to be able to get those values as easy as possible, and also of course, update and insert them.

I think it’s quite strange there doesn’t seem to be in built support for this in EF. Even our own built ORM-system have support for this. We just add a comment “encrypted” for each field thats encrypted and the ORM tool will add des_decrypt(column) and des_encrypt(column) in the queries.

Anyone?

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  1. Editorial Team

    IMO you should encrypt before putting it into the database and store it as binary data. Then you can easily get the byte[] with EF.

    EDIT: What if you used a stored procedure to do all the des_encrypt and des_decrypt as well as the selects/inserts/deletes for you. Then EF will still do the mapping for you?

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