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Salesforce Encrypted SSN/CreditCard Field Limitation

SSN Field Encryption & Shield/Credit Card Field Limitation – SFDC
Salesforce have ability to display the secured data in encrypted format. It is salesforce out of box functionality. You can create new Text(Encrypted) using “Custom Fields & Relationships†on the object.
Advantages of SSN Field Encryption :
- User can’t see the customer full SSN/CreditCard number
- If user really want to see user profile have option to enable. Profile permission is “View Encrypted Dataâ€
Disadvantages of SSN Field Encryption :
- Can’t use encrypted field in the report/listview/global search filter criteria
- Can’t use use in SOQL query where condition. You will get below error while using encrypted field in the query filter condition

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