diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1b65e5263..06deb0f65 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ jobs:
           PLAIN_OUTPUT: True
           REDIS_URL: "localhost:6379"
           IS_TESTING: True
-          ENCRYPTION_KEY: "dummy key"
+          ENCRYPTION_KEY: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456"
 
       - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
diff --git a/config_template.yaml b/config_template.yaml
index c5e83df19..9309a588f 100644
--- a/config_template.yaml
+++ b/config_template.yaml
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ GITHUB_CLIENT_ID:
 GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET:
 FRONTEND_URL: "http://localhost:3000"
 
-#ENCRPYTION KEY
-ENCRYPTION_KEY: secret
+#ENCRPYTION KEY, Replace this with your own key for production
+ENCRYPTION_KEY: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
 
 #WEAVIATE
 
diff --git a/superagi/helper/encyption_helper.py b/superagi/helper/encyption_helper.py
index 4939b1d0c..ec49e3d39 100644
--- a/superagi/helper/encyption_helper.py
+++ b/superagi/helper/encyption_helper.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import base64
+
 from cryptography.fernet import Fernet, InvalidToken, InvalidSignature
 from superagi.config.config import get_config
 # Generate a key
@@ -6,9 +8,19 @@
 key = get_config("ENCRYPTION_KEY")
 if key is None:
     raise Exception("Encryption key not found in config file.")
+
+if len(key) != 32:
+    raise ValueError("Encryption key must be 32 bytes long.")
+
+# Encode the key to UTF-8
 key = key.encode(
     "utf-8"
 )
+
+# base64 encode the key
+key = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(key)
+
+# Create a cipher suite
 cipher_suite = Fernet(key)