diff --git a/lib/oxigraph/Cargo.toml b/lib/oxigraph/Cargo.toml
index d538ce89..995cf1c4 100644
--- a/lib/oxigraph/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/oxigraph/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ thiserror.workspace = true
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_family = "wasm"))'.dependencies]
 libc = "0.2"
-rocksdb = {git = "https://git.nextgraph.org/NextGraph/rust-rocksdb.git", branch = "master", features = [  ], optional = true }
+rocksdb = {git = "https://git.nextgraph.org/NextGraph/rust-rocksdb.git", branch = "master", features = [  ] }
 
 [target.'cfg(all(target_family = "wasm", target_os = "unknown"))'.dependencies]
 getrandom.workspace = true
diff --git a/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/mod.rs b/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/mod.rs
index db2ebd5f..b94eb657 100644
--- a/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/mod.rs
+++ b/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/mod.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 //! A storage backend
 //! RocksDB is available, if not in memory
 
-#[cfg(any(target_family = "wasm", not(feature = "rocksdb")))]
+#[cfg(any(target_family = "wasm"))]
 pub use fallback::{ColumnFamily, ColumnFamilyDefinition, Db, Iter, Reader, Transaction};
-#[cfg(all(not(target_family = "wasm"), feature = "rocksdb"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_family = "wasm")))]
 pub use oxi_rocksdb::{ColumnFamily, ColumnFamilyDefinition, Db, Iter, Reader, Transaction};
 
-#[cfg(any(target_family = "wasm", not(feature = "rocksdb")))]
+#[cfg(any(target_family = "wasm"))]
 mod fallback;
-#[cfg(all(not(target_family = "wasm"), feature = "rocksdb"))]
+#[cfg(all(not(target_family = "wasm")))]
 mod oxi_rocksdb;
diff --git a/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/oxi_rocksdb.rs b/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/oxi_rocksdb.rs
index 0f194a6e..5c5b96fd 100644
--- a/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/oxi_rocksdb.rs
+++ b/lib/oxigraph/src/storage/backend/oxi_rocksdb.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};
 use std::thread::{available_parallelism, yield_now};
 use std::{fmt, io, ptr, slice};
 
+pub fn opt_bytes_to_ptr<T: AsRef<[u8]>>(opt: Option<T>) -> *const c_char {
+    match opt {
+        Some(v) => v.as_ref().as_ptr() as *const c_char,
+        None => ptr::null(),
+    }
+}
+
 macro_rules! ffi_result {
     ( $($function:ident)::*( $arg1:expr $(, $arg:expr)* $(,)? ) ) => {{
         let mut status = rocksdb_status_t {
@@ -440,6 +447,7 @@ impl Db {
     fn db_options(
         limit_max_open_files: bool,
         in_memory: bool,
+        key: Option<[u8; 32]>,
     ) -> Result<*mut rocksdb_options_t, StorageError> {
         static ROCKSDB_ENV: OnceLock<UnsafeEnv> = OnceLock::new();
         static ROCKSDB_MEM_ENV: OnceLock<UnsafeEnv> = OnceLock::new();
@@ -487,8 +495,8 @@ impl Db {
                     })
                 } else {
                     ROCKSDB_ENV.get_or_init(|| {
-                        let env = rocksdb_create_default_env();
-                        assert!(!env.is_null(), "rocksdb_create_default_env returned null");
+                        let env = rocksdb_create_encrypted_env(opt_bytes_to_ptr(key.as_ref()));
+                        assert!(!env.is_null(), "rocksdb_create_encrypted_env returned null");
                         UnsafeEnv(env)
                     })
                 }