Here's my go at a custom model field that provides transparent encryption/decryption for U.S. Social Security Numbers in Django. Comments sought and sincerely welcomed.

OpenID advocate and Django Project co-founder, Simon Willison, gives a presentation on OpenID to a group of Google employees. This is a great overview and discussion of the most promising solution to the problem of "too many accounts" online that I've seen. When I migrate my blog to my new Djano-based backend, I'm definitely going to implement a consumer.