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Cryptographic Primitives

MongoDB encrypts all fields in Queryable Encryption and CSFLE with the AEAD AES-256-CBC encryption algorithm.

  • With Queryable Encryption, ciphertext is always non-deterministic.

  • With CSFLE, if you specify deterministic encryption for a field, your application passes a deterministic initialization vector to AEAD.

  • With CSFLE, if you specify random encryption for a field, your application passes a random initialization vector to AEAD.

Note

Authenticated Encryption

MongoDB uses the encrypt-then-MAC approach to perform authenticated encryption. Both Queryable Encryption and CSFLE use the HMAC-SHA-256 algorithm to generate your MAC.

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