We do all of our encryption in the middleware:
1) translate our data which requires encryption into an XML string 2) compress + encrypt, yielding byte []. 3) Store byte [] as a bytea column.
The resulting byte arrays are relatively small in our case (1 -> 3K), so bytea has seemed to suit us just fine.
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