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Automatic Encryption Shared Library
Overview
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library is a dynamic library that enables your client application to perform automatic Queryable Encryption. A dynamic library is a set of functionality accessed by an application at runtime rather than compile time. The Automatic Encryption Shared Library performs the following tasks:
Uses your encrypted fields map to mark fields in read and write operations for encryption
Prevents your application from executing unsupported operations on encrypted fields
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library does not perform any of the following tasks:
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library does not perform encryption or decryption itself
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library does not access any encryption key material
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library does not listen over the network
Important
Supported MongoDB Server Products
Automatic Queryable Encryption is only available in the following MongoDB server products:
MongoDB Atlas 6.0 or later clusters
MongoDB Enterprise 6.0 or later
Automatic Queryable Encryption is not available in any version of MongoDB Community Server.
The Automatic Encryption Shared Library provides the same functionality as mongocryptd,
but does not require you to spawn another process to perform automatic
encryption.
To learn more about automatic encryption, see Features.
To learn more about mongocryptd, see
Install and Configure mongocryptd.
Note
libmongocrypt Performs Encryption
Drivers compatible with MongoDB 6.0 and later use the Apache-licensed libmongocrypt library for performing encryption and decryption.
Download the Automatic Encryption Shared Library
Download the Automatic Encryption Shared Library from the MongoDB Download Center using the following link:
In the Version dropdown, select
6.0.0 (current).In the Platform dropdown, select your platform.
In the Package dropdown, select
crypt_shared.Click Download.
Configuration
You can configure how your driver searches for the Automatic Encryption Shared Library through the following parameters:
Name | Description |
|---|---|
cryptSharedLibPath | Specifies the absolute path to the Automatic Encryption Shared Library package, crypt_shared.Default: undefined |
cryptSharedRequired | Specifies if the driver must use the Automatic Encryption Shared Library. If true,the driver raises an error if the Automatic Encryption Shared Library is unavailable. If false, the driver performs the following sequence of actions:
Default: false |
To view an example demonstrating how to configure these parameters, see the Quick Start.