# Data Masking ES 7.x
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259 "2019-10-11T15:31:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/1 "2019-10-11T15:31:18Z")
Hi all,
can I know what is the current situation regarding any kind of plugin/method for data masking?
I mean, if I would like to do it, what should be the best or suggest approach?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/2 "2019-10-13T09:58:22Z")
If you are meaning hiding some fields or documents depending on user rights, it's possible with the security plugin with a platinum license (commercial) or the 30 days trial which you can activate from Kibana.
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/3 "2019-10-14T08:19:28Z")
hi @dadoonet,
no I would like to change field's value with, for instance, a hash.
I have already used the platinum feature "hide document/field" but in this situation I have to "change" the values inside fields.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/4 "2019-10-21T10:22:00Z")
You should compute a hash then.
The Logstash fingerprint plugin does that.
It's not available in elasticsearch yet as an ingest processor though. See
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/5 "2019-10-21T12:03:36Z")
sorry @dadoonet, I'm not understanding the LS plugin usage ☹
probably my initial request was not so clear. my intention is to mask a specific field (for instance, the employees's revenue) with an hash code.
I'm not sure I can use the LS fingerprint plugin.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/6 "2019-10-21T14:06:56Z")
If you are ingesting your data using logstash then you can use the fingerprint plugin.
Otherwise you can create your own hash on the application side.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-masking-es-7-x/203259/7 "2019-11-18T14:07:02Z")
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