From 835e74f3b2f013f2c86eeabe8fab4377ac71ce38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Spencer Owen Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:03:46 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify encryption keys are shared across datacenters #5973 --- website/source/guides/security/encryption.html.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/source/guides/security/encryption.html.md b/website/source/guides/security/encryption.html.md index 1854a9dc9..05315c4db 100644 --- a/website/source/guides/security/encryption.html.md +++ b/website/source/guides/security/encryption.html.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ RPC. Enabling gossip encryption only requires that you set an encryption key when starting the Nomad server. The key can be set via the [`encrypt`](/docs/configuration/server.html#encrypt) parameter: the value -of this setting is a server configuration file containing the encryption key. +of this setting is a server configuration file containing the encryption key. The same encryption key should be used on every server in the cluster. The key must be 16 bytes, base64 encoded. As a convenience, Nomad provides the [`nomad operator keygen`](/docs/commands/operator/keygen.html) command to