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+# Encrypting Secret Data at Rest
+
+Before enabling Encrypting Secret Data at Rest, please read the following documentation carefully.
+
+<https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-data/>
+
+As you can see from the documentation above, 5 encryption providers are supported as of today (22.02.2022).
+
+As default value for the provider we have chosen `secretbox`.
+
+Alternatively you can use the values `identity`, `aesgcm`, `aescbc` or `kms`.
+
+| Provider | Why we have decided against the value as default                                                                                                                                         |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| identity | no encryption                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| aesgcm   | Must be rotated every 200k writes                                                                                                                                                        |
+| aescbc   | Not recommended due to CBC's vulnerability to padding oracle attacks.                                                                                                                    |
+| kms      | Is the official recommended way, but assumes that a key management service independent of Kubernetes exists, we cannot assume this in all environments, so not a suitable default value. |
+
+## Details about Secretbox
+
+Secretbox uses [Poly1305](https://cr.yp.to/mac.html) as message-authentication code and [XSalsa20](https://www.xsalsa20.com/) as secret-key authenticated encryption and secret-key encryption.