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pubDate: 2023-01-01
modDate: 2024-10-04
modDate: 2026-10-07
title: Data encryption
description: This section describes how Octopus Deploy encrypts sensitive data at rest.
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Without keeping a record of your Master Key, you won't be able to make use of your Octopus database backups, since there is no way to decrypt these sensitive values.
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## Sensitive variables on deployment targets {#sensitive-variables-on-targets}

Octopus sends sensitive variables to a deployment target in encrypted form, and the target stores them encrypted. Octopus passes the password that decrypts them to the Calamari invocation as a process parameter.

## Your Master Key {#your-master-key}

When Octopus is installed, it generates a random string which will be used as the Master Key. You will need to know your Master Key if you ever hope to restore an Octopus backup on another server.
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