Add info for new settings authored by Marius David Wieschollek's avatar Marius David Wieschollek
The passwords app offers strong end to end encryption which requires anyone trying to decrypt your passwords to know the encryption passphrase.
The passwords app offers strong end-to-end encryption which requires anyone trying to decrypt your passwords to know the encryption passphrase.
## Enabling End to End encryption
## Enabling End-to-End encryption
> :warning: Some third-party clients do not support encryption
#### Important Information
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- The encryption setup will create the new entries before deleting any old ones.
So even if something goes wrong, there should be no data loss.
#### Enabling End to End encryption
#### Enabling End-to-End encryption
1. Open the Settings (`More > Settings`)
2. Locate the `Encryption` section at the end of the `Security` section.
3. Click the `Activate` button next to `End-to-End Encryption`.
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> :warning: Do not abort the encryption process or reload the page
## Disabling End to End encryption
There is no built-in option to disable end to end encryption.
Passwords offers hidden passwords, which make it impossible to guarantee that all passwords have been decrypted.
This would either prevent removing the encryption passphrase or leave some passwords unreadable and permanently encrypted.
If you're sure that you do not have any hidden passwords, you can try the following steps:
## Disabling End-to-End encryption
There is no built-in option to disable end-to-end encryption.
Passwords a functionality to store hidden passwords, tags and folders and also keeps previous revisions of any change made to any item.
These features prevent removing the encryption passphrase or would leave some items permanently encrypted and unreadable.
You can follow these steps to export all your data, reset the app and start again without encryption:
> :exclamation: This process will delete any hidden items and all settings
1. Make sure you have no hidden passwords in any app you use or unhide them in that app.
1. Make sure you have no hidden items or use the [Recover hidden items](../Settings#recover-hidden-items) option to show them all.
2. Exit or log out of any client but the Nextcloud app itself
3. Ask your admin to make a backup using passwords backup command
4. Make a complete, unencrypted [database export](./Export#database-backup)
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