HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002) — Question 83

To encrypt your secret with the transit secrets engine, you must send the Base32-encoded plaintext to Vault.

Answer options

• A. True
• B. False

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because the transit secrets engine accepts plaintext directly for encryption without requiring Base32 encoding. Therefore, stating that Base32 encoding is needed is incorrect.