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title: Field Level Encryption
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  support FIPS-140-2 compliance.
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# Field Level Encryption

> Fields within a document can be securely encrypted by the SDK, to support FIPS-140-2 compliance. 

Client-side implementation of Field Level Encryption is available in previous versions of the C, .NET, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, and Python SDK. It will be enabled in a future release of the third generation SDK, including the Ruby SDK.