All,

After searching the forum, I think I already know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway. I'd like to be able to use the MySQL encryption methods with Hibernate when fetching/store sensitive data via Hibernate but it seems from what I have read that the two won't play.

Is this still the case?

I don't want to convert all my source to use straight JDBC calls to fetch/store the sensitive data so I'm assuming that a custom java class to do encryption/decryption is my only avenue?

I haven't tried to do this in Hibernate, but I have a Java class that will give you the same MD5 implementation as MySQL has if you are using MD5 to store passwords. Let me know if you want it and I can send it along.

Danny,

Thanks for the reply and the generous offer to share your class. I'm mainly interested in storing information using AES encryption since I'll need to retrieve the encrypted information as well as store it. For passwords I have something else in mind but if it turns out not to work I'll definitely be getting in touch with you.

So, I'm kind of still stuck on this one.

-Mike