# How to encrypt Elasticsearch document source?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488 "2020-11-16T10:11:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Yao\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yao_Pan)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488/1 "2020-11-16T10:11:33Z")
I need to encrypt Elasticsearch document source content for security.
The final effect to be achieved is as follows:
input:
```auto
{
"title":"you know, for search",
"viewcount": 20
}
```
In es:
```auto
{
"title": "zpv!lopx-!gps!tfbsdi", // whatever, encrypted title
"viewcount": ☯ // whatever, encrypted viewcount
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488/2 "2020-11-16T10:25:54Z")
But it won't be searchable?
There's nothing in Elasticsearch which will encrypt the json content of your documents.
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### Author:  [@Yao\_Pan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yao_Pan)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488/3 "2020-11-16T11:17:03Z")
I have developed a security token filter ，use encrypted term to search the inverted index, and the term in the inverted index is also encrypted.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488/4 "2020-11-17T00:21:09Z")
This is something you would need to handle outside of Elasticsearch at this stage.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-encrypt-elasticsearch-document-source/255488/5 "2020-12-15T00:21:15Z")
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