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Database Encryption

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Another requirement from the Discord Developer Terms is that the database information is encrypted at rest (should not be stored as plain-text in the database). When we migrate to MongoDB, I can recommend the use of mongoose with mongoose-encrypt to seamlessly implement this.

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Created 3 years ago
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naomi-lgbtcommented, Feb 20, 2021

I rolled mongoose-encrypt into my own Discord bot. Remarkably easy to set up, and handles encryption+decryption automatically.

Some concerns:

Encrypted fields cannot be queried (I left only the serverID field decrypted on my data, as that’s how I index things).
the findAndUpdate and findOneAndUpdate methods of mongoose do not play well with the encryption. I personally use find, make the changes, then save.

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eddiejaoudecommented, Jul 3, 2021

Thank you! Moved to the API https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/api/issues/156

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