There's nothing special about settings.py.  You could do something like:

from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish

blowme = Blowfish.new(SECRET_KEY)
DATABASE_PASSWORD = blowme.decrypt(ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD)


Securing SECRET_KEY is left as an exercise for the reader.

On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Eyüp Hakan Duran wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am very new to django so please be gentle with me. I understand that
> we need to define the password to login to the database in the
> settings.py file. Although I know one can set the permissions of this
> file to be not readable by others, I was just wondering whether there
> is another option that is more secure.
> 
> Regards.
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