# Is it possible to change the Vault cipher from AES256?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-vault-cipher-from-aes256/25117>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-vault-cipher-from-aes256/25117 "2017-07-28T17:12:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeamHall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leamhall/32/9390_2.png) [@LeamHall](https://forum.ansible.com/u/LeamHall)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-vault-cipher-from-aes256/25117/1 "2017-07-28T17:12:06Z")

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The stuff I’ve read said that AES256 is the default but I can’t find what options are available and where it gets changed.

Thanks!

Leam

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**Author:** ![alikins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@alikins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alikins)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-it-possible-to-change-the-vault-cipher-from-aes256/25117/2 "2017-07-31T15:03:14Z")

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At the moment, AES256 is the only cipher supported.

(There is limited read only support for an AES cipher used in early versions of vault, but that is

only for backwards compat).

Support for more ciphers (or pluggable ciphers) might be a good roadmap request though. 2.5

roadmap planning isn’t started yet, but I suspect some subset of that will likely get added to the roadmap.