# At Rest Encryption in Elastic Search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 6, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144 "2016-12-06T09:03:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sampathkore4444](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sampathkore4444)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144/1 "2016-12-06T09:03:17Z")
How to encrypt the data inside Elastic search index files?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144/2 "2016-12-06T09:03:40Z")
There's currently no way, you need to encrypt the disk.
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### Author:  [@sampathkore4444](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sampathkore4444)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144/3 "2016-12-06T09:37:37Z")
Could you please tell me how to encrypt the disk itself?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144/4 "2016-12-06T09:50:22Z")
Use something like dmcrypt.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-rest-encryption-in-elastic-search/68144/5 "2017-01-03T09:50:26Z")
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