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  1. Drivers
  2. DRIVERS-2135

Add "explicit encryption" section to spec with description and examples

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
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    Description

      Based on my reading of CSE spec, there is no section which explains how explicit encryption works on a high level. There are multiple references to explicit encryption throughout the spec, but they appear to be side notes to descriptions of automatic encryption functionality. For a user who only wishes to configure explicit encryption, or for a driver which implements explicit encryption first, it is difficult to:

      • Identify what the minimum driver API is to provide explicit encryption feature to the user
      • Get a high level idea of how explicit encryption works across all of the components (driver, libmongocrypt, key vault)

      It will be helpful to have a dedicated section to explicit encryption which will provide a high level description of the above in prose.

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            oleg.pudeyev@mongodb.com Oleg Pudeyev (Inactive)
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