diff --git a/django_mailbox/admin.py b/django_mailbox/admin.py
index c586b40..b953947 100644
--- a/django_mailbox/admin.py
+++ b/django_mailbox/admin.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ console.
 
 import logging
 
+from django import forms
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -39,11 +40,29 @@ resend_message_received_signal.short_description = (
     _('Re-send message received signal')
 )
 
+class MailboxForm(forms.ModelForm):
+    uri = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput,
+                          help_text="For security, the URI will not be shown and will "
+                                    "be encrypted in database "
+                                    "<br />"
+                                    "Example: imap+ssl://myusername:mypassword@someserver <br />"
+                                    "<br />"
+                                    "Internet transports include 'imap' and 'pop3'; "
+                                    "common local file transports include 'maildir', 'mbox', "
+                                    "and less commonly 'babyl', 'mh', and 'mmdf'. <br />"
+                                    "<br />"
+                                    "Be sure to urlencode your username and password should they "
+                                    "contain illegal characters (like @, :, etc)."
+                          )
+
+    class Meta:
+        model = Mailbox
+        fields = ('name', 'uri', 'from_email', 'active',)
 
 class MailboxAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+    form = MailboxForm
     list_display = (
         'name',
-        'uri',
         'from_email',
         'active',
         'last_polling',
@@ -51,6 +70,10 @@ class MailboxAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     readonly_fields = ['last_polling', ]
     actions = [get_new_mail]
 
+    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
+        if request:
+            obj.uri = obj.encrypt_uri()
+        obj.save()
 
 class MessageAttachmentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     raw_id_fields = ('message', )
diff --git a/django_mailbox/models.py b/django_mailbox/models.py
index 9f7ffc2..c3bf09b 100644
--- a/django_mailbox/models.py
+++ b/django_mailbox/models.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import os.path
 import sys
 import uuid
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
+from Crypto.Cipher import AES
 
 import six
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import parse_qs, unquote, urlparse
@@ -113,9 +114,39 @@ class Mailbox(models.Model):
     objects = models.Manager()
     active_mailboxes = ActiveMailboxManager()
 
+    def pad(self, key):
+        length = 32 - (len(key) % 32)
+        return key + chr(length).encode('utf-8') * length
+
+    def unpad(self, key):
+        return key[0:-ord(key[-1])]
+
+    def encrypt_uri(self):
+        secret_key = self.pad(django_settings.SECRET_KEY)
+        self.uri = unicode(self.pad(self.uri)).encode('utf-8')
+
+        cipher = AES.new(secret_key)
+        self.uri = cipher.encrypt(self.uri)
+        self.uri = base64.b64encode(self.uri)
+
+        return self.uri
+
+    def decrypt_uri(self):
+        secret_key = self.pad(django_settings.SECRET_KEY)
+        uri = self.uri
+        uri = self.pad(uri)
+        uri = base64.b64decode(uri)
+
+        cipher = AES.new(secret_key)
+        uri = cipher.decrypt(uri)
+
+        return self.unpad(uri)
+
     @property
     def _protocol_info(self):
-        return urlparse(self.uri)
+        uri = self.uri
+        uri = self.decrypt_uri()
+        return urlparse(uri)
 
     @property
     def _query_string(self):
@@ -351,10 +382,12 @@ class Mailbox(models.Model):
         if settings['store_original_message']:
             self._process_save_original_message(message, msg)
         msg.mailbox = self
+        # Fix to accept subject emojis in utf-8
         if 'subject' in message:
             msg.subject = (
-                utils.convert_header_to_unicode(message['subject'])[0:255]
+                utils.convert_header_to_unicode(message['subject'].decode('raw-unicode-escape'))[0:255]
             )
+            msg.subject = unicode(email.header.decode_header(msg.subject)[0][0], errors='ignore')
         if 'message-id' in message:
             msg.message_id = message['message-id'][0:255].strip()
         if 'from' in message:
diff --git a/django_mailbox/utils.py b/django_mailbox/utils.py
index 48e76be..eda4f35 100644
--- a/django_mailbox/utils.py
+++ b/django_mailbox/utils.py
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ def get_settings():
         ),
         'default_charset': getattr(
             settings,
-            'DJANGO_MAILBOX_default_charset',
-            'iso8859-1',
+            'DJANGO_MAILBOX_DEFAULT_CHARSET',
+            'utf8',
         )
     }
 
diff --git a/rtd_requirements.txt b/rtd_requirements.txt
index 18684b7..8e20bd2 100644
--- a/rtd_requirements.txt
+++ b/rtd_requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 django>=1.9,<1.10
 six
+pycrypto==2.6.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d6e4625..7eaed7e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ setup(
     packages=find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=[
-        'six>=1.6.1'
+        'six>=1.6.1',
+        'pycrypto==2.6.1'
     ]
 )