--- title: Hardening Gophish: Implementing AES-256-GCM for Database... description: Anglerphish, a fork of GoPhish, introduces optional application-layer AES-256-GCM encryption for sensitive database fields including SMTP/IMAP passwords, SMS... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hardening-gophish-implementing-aes-256-gcm-for-database-encryption-in-anglerphish-kucd2xgc0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hardening Gophish: Implementing AES-256-GCM for Database Encryption in Anglerphish | daily.dev og:description: Anglerphish, a fork of GoPhish, introduces optional application-layer AES-256-GCM encryption for sensitive database fields including SMTP/IMAP passwords, SMS... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hardening-gophish-implementing-aes-256-gcm-for-database-encryption-in-anglerphish-kucd2xgc0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KuCd2xGC0.png og:image:alt: Hardening Gophish: Implementing AES-256-GCM for Database Encryption in Anglerphish og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hardening Gophish: Implementing AES-256-GCM for Database Encryption in Anglerphish **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anglerphish, a fork of GoPhish, introduces optional application-layer AES-256-GCM encryption for sensitive database fields including SMTP/IMAP passwords, SMS API keys, and captured phishing simulation data. The implementation uses a versioned encrypted format (ENC:v1:) stored alongside nonces, activated via a single environment variable. Key design decisions include opt-in activation, transparent encryption/decryption via database hooks, graceful failure handling, and full backward compatibility with mixed plaintext/encrypted data. The post covers the design rationale, CLI commands for key generation and migration, and a deployment checklist for persisting keys securely via systemd. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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