The companion C library for client side encryption in drivers.
If you have encountered a bug, or would like to see a new feature in libmongocrypt, please open a case in our issue management tool, JIRA:
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- Click Create Issue - Please provide as much information as possible about the issue type and how to reproduce it.
See The Integration Guide to integrate with your driver.
See mongocrypt.h for the public API reference.
The documentation can be rendered into HTML with doxygen. Run doxygen ./doc/Doxygen, then open ./doc/html/index.html.
On Windows and macOS, libmongocrypt can use the platform's default encryption APIs as its encryption backend. On other systems, one will want to install the OpenSSL development libraries, which libmongocrypt will use as the default encryption backend.
Then build libmongocrypt:
git clone https://github.com/mongodb/libmongocrypt
cd libmongocrypt
mkdir cmake-build && cd cmake-build
cmake ../
make
This builds libmongocrypt.dylib and test-libmongocrypt, in the cmake-build directory.
Install the latest release of libmongocrypt with the following.
brew install mongodb/brew/libmongocrypt
To install the latest unstable development version of libmongocrypt, use brew install mongodb/brew/libmongocrypt --HEAD. Do not use the unstable version of libmongocrypt in a production environment.
First install Homebrew according to its own instructions.
Install the XCode Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --install
Then clone and build libmongocrypt:
git clone https://github.com/mongodb/libmongocrypt.git
cd libmongocrypt
cmake .
cmake --build . --target install
Then, libmongocrypt can be used with pkg-config:
pkg-config libmongocrypt --libs --cflags
Or use cmake's find_package:
find_package (mongocrypt)
# Then link against mongo::mongocrypt
For Windows, there is a fixed URL to download the DLL and includes directory: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mciuploads/libmongocrypt/windows/latest_release/libmongocrypt.tar.gz
To download the latest unstable release, download from this URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mciuploads/libmongocrypt/windows/latest_release/libmongocrypt_unstable.tar.gz Do not use the unstable version of libmongocrypt in a production environment.
test-mongocrypt mocks all I/O with files stored in the test/data and test/example directories. Run test-mongocrypt from the source directory:
cd libmongocrypt
./cmake-build/test-mongocrypt
libmongocrypt is continuously built and published on evergreen. Submit patch builds to this evergreen project when making changes to test on supported platforms. The latest tarball containing libmongocrypt built on all supported variants is published here.
If OpenSSL is installed in a non-default directory, pass -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/openssl to the cmake command for libmongocrypt.
If there are errors with cmake configuration, send the set of steps you performed to the maintainers of this project.
If there are compilation or linker errors, run make again, setting VERBOSE=1 in the environment or on the command line (which shows exact compile and link commands), and send the output to the maintainers of this project.
The design of libmongocrypt adheres to these principles.
The main reason behind creating a C library is to make it easier for drivers to support FLE. Some consequences of this principle: the API is minimal, structs are opaque, and global initialization is lazy.
We decided against the "have libmongocrypt do everything" approach because it complicated integration, especially with async drivers. Because of this we decided no I/O occurs in libmongocrypt.
See releasing.
Distribution packages (i.e., .deb/.rpm) are built and published for several Linux distributions. The installation of these packages for supported platforms is documented here.
To install the latest unstable development package, change 1.9 to development in the package URLs listed in the subsequent instructions. For example, https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/ubuntu <release>/libmongocrypt/1.9 in the instructions would become https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/ubuntu <release>/libmongocrypt/development. Do not use the unstable version of libmongocrypt in a production environment.
First, import the public key used to sign the package repositories:
sudo sh -c 'curl -s --location https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc | gpg --dearmor >/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/libmongocrypt.gpg'
Second, create a list entry for the repository. For Ubuntu systems (be sure to change <release> to xenial, bionic, focal, or jammy, as appropriate to your system):
echo "deb https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/ubuntu <release>/libmongocrypt/1.9 universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libmongocrypt.list
For Debian systems (be sure to change <release> to stretch, buster, bullseye, or bookworm as appropriate to your system):
echo "deb https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/debian <release>/libmongocrypt/1.9 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libmongocrypt.list
Third, update the package cache:
sudo apt-get update
Finally, install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo apt-get install -y libmongocrypt-dev
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo with contents:
[libmongocrypt]
name=libmongocrypt repository
baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/libmongocrypt/1.9/x86_64
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc
Then install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo with contents:
[libmongocrypt]
name=libmongocrypt repository
baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2023/libmongocrypt/1.9/x86_64
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc
Then install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo with contents:
[libmongocrypt]
name=libmongocrypt repository
baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2/libmongocrypt/1.9/x86_64
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc
Then install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo with contents:
[libmongocrypt]
name=libmongocrypt repository
baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2013.03/libmongocrypt/1.9/x86_64
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc
Then install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt
First, import the public key used to sign the package repositories:
sudo rpm --import https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc
Second, add the repository (be sure to change <release> to 12 or 15, as appropriate to your system):
sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck "https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/zypper/suse/<release>/libmongocrypt/1.9/x86_64" libmongocrypt
Finally, install the libmongocrypt packages:
sudo zypper -n install libmongocrypt