DOTENV ENTERPRISE
Enterprise solutions for env files
Fellow technology leader,
As the world’s foremost expert on env files — and the creator of the original dotenv (now installed billions of times a year) — I’ve spent over a decade helping developers manage secrets simply and safely.
Today, env files are critical infrastructure: embedded in AI agents, shipped with CI pipelines, and scattered across developer laptops. And yet — they remain unencrypted, unaudited, and often invisible to security teams.
Dotenv Enterprise solves this.
We’ve extended the familiar env file format to support encryption at rest, git-based auditing, and org-wide visibility — all without changing how developers work. It’s zero-friction security for an overlooked but essential layer of your stack.
Please get in touch. We have complete solutions and services available. This new technology is exciting! Major forward thinking organizations have implemented it, and we'd love to help you do the same.
Regards,
Scott (Mot) Motte
Creator of Dotenv / Founder @ Dotenv Enterprise
Adoption Rising
Large organizations have begun moving to our encrypted env files.
Socket.dev
NASA
Supabase
AWS Amplify
French Government
OpenNextjs
Bitcoin-SV
Neon Database
Rocicorp
Procore
SettleMint
..and more
We can share more – concerning other organization's use cases – while on a call.
Services
Expert guidance and hands-on support for adopting encrypted env files across your team, stack, and CI pipelines.
Secrets Audit
We'll help you discover where unencrypted secrets live — in repos, machines, CI pipelines, or Slack messages — and create a plan to secure them.
Encrypted Setup & Rollout
We’ll work with your team to integrate encrypted env files into your workflows — including Git, CI/CD, and runtime environments.
Key Management Strategy
We'll design a key management flow using AWS Parameter Store or your preferred KMS — including key rotation, access scoping, and fail-safe recovery.
Audit-Ready Reporting
We'll help you enable git-based auditing of secrets changes — and provide visibility across environments, machines, and teammates.
Zero-Knowledge Architecture Review
We’ll help you evaluate or design a secrets architecture that never exposes private keys — even to your own infrastructure.
Team Training & Onboarding
Clear documentation and live walkthroughs to get every developer on your team using encrypted env files confidently — without disrupting workflows.
Technologies
What makes encrypted env files possible—and production‑ready.
Encryption
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AES‑256‑GCMfor secret values -
ECIESwithsecp256k1for keypairs -
Diffie-Hellman+HKDF (SHA‑256)for key derivation
Runtime & Libraries
- Runtime decryption engine
- Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Rust
- Cross-platform CLI
Platform Support
- AWS Lambda, Docker, GitHub Actions
- Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io
- CI/CD compatible
Workflow Features
- Version control for encrypted
.env - Pull request review workflows
- Key rotation without workflow disruption
Publications
Research, analysis, and reports on the future of env file security.
Read the Report
State of Env Files Report (2025)
Conclusion. As the role of autonomous software agents grows, and as configuration becomes increasingly dynamic and decentralized, encrypted env files offer a model for trustless, portable, and audit-ready configuration—at every layer of the stack.
Read the Whitepaper
Dotenvx: Reducing Secrets Risk with Cryptographic Separation
Abstract. An ideal secrets solution would not only centralize secrets but also contain the fallout of a breach. While secrets managers offer centralized storage and distribution, their design creates a large blast radius, risking exposure of thousands or even millions of secrets. We propose a solution that reduces the blast radius by splitting secrets management into two distinct components: an encrypted secrets file and a separate decryption key.
Download the Flyer
Are your env files safe?
Pitch. Dotenv Enterprise encrypts your env files at rest, protects them in transit, and audits them everywhere. All without changing your workflow or doing intergration work. Same files. Same workflow. Zero integrations. But now they're safe.
Read the Blog Post
From dotenv to dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management
Summary. The post introduces Dotenvx as a “next-generation” config management tool that enhances the classic .env workflow with consistency across platforms, support for multiple environments, and—most importantly—built‑in encryption to protect secrets.
Enterprise solutions for env files.