### Managing encryption {#encryption}
-Documents can be stored in Paperless using GnuPG encryption.
-
!!! warning
- Encryption is deprecated since [paperless-ng 0.9](changelog.md#paperless-ng-090) and doesn't really
- provide any additional security, since you have to store the passphrase
- in a configuration file on the same system as the encrypted documents
- for paperless to work. Furthermore, the entire text content of the
- documents is stored plain in the database, even if your documents are
- encrypted. Filenames are not encrypted as well.
-
- Also, the web server provides transparent access to your encrypted
- documents.
+ Encryption was removed in [paperless-ng 0.9](changelog.md#paperless-ng-090)
+ because it did not really provide any additional security, the passphrase
+ was stored in a configuration file on the same system as the documents.
+ Furthermore, the entire text content of the documents is stored plain in
+ the database, even if your documents are encrypted. Filenames are not
+ encrypted as well. Finally, the web server provides transparent access to
+ your encrypted documents.
Consider running paperless on an encrypted filesystem instead, which
will then at least provide security against physical hardware theft.