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Marius David Wieschollek edited this page Dec 3, 2023 · 10 revisions

The passwords app offers strong end-to-end encryption which requires anyone trying to decrypt your passwords to know the encryption passphrase.

Before you start

  • By default, the encryption setup will encrypt all existing passwords, folders and tags except those who are shared.
  • All previous revisions but the current will be deleted.
  • The encryption setup will also create a new password entry with your encryption passphrase. If you do not want this, switch the settings view to Advanced in the top right corner and uncheck the options in step 5 of the setup.
  • The encryption setup will create the new entries before deleting any old ones. So even if something goes wrong, there should be no data loss.

How To: Enable End-To-End Encryption

Enabling End-to-End encryption

  1. Open the Settings (More > Settings)
  2. Locate the Encryption section at the end of the Security section.
  3. Click the Activate button next to End-to-End Encryption.
  4. The setup wizard will appear. Click continue to see the encryption passphrase dialog.
  5. Choose an encryption passphrase with at least 12 characters and confirm it.

    ⚠️ Do not use your Nextcloud password. Every Nextcloud app can read your Nextcloud password and it offers no security

  6. Click Save.

The encryption setup will automatically encrypt all folders and passwords

⚠️ Do not abort the encryption process or reload the page

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