diff --git a/docs/POSTBOX_E2EE_ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/POSTBOX_E2EE_ARCHITECTURE.md
index 6729049..3019ec0 100644
--- a/docs/POSTBOX_E2EE_ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/POSTBOX_E2EE_ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 # Postbox End-To-End Encryption Architecture
 
-This document records the strategic encryption target for GovOPlaN postboxes.
-It does not require the first postbox implementation to ship full E2EE, but it
-defines the architecture so early data models and APIs do not make the stronger
-model impossible.
+This document records the encryption boundary for GovOPlaN postboxes. Postbox
+now implements the server-side contracts for three selectable profiles:
+unencrypted content, institution-managed server envelopes, and externally
+produced E2EE envelopes. The E2EE contract is operational—the server rejects
+plaintext and retains ciphertext, signed manifests, wrapped keys, and digest
+evidence—but a reviewed browser/device client and private-key custody provider
+remain separately deployed responsibilities.
 
 The core principle is that a postbox can become a trusted administrative
 communication channel without requiring the server to see plaintext content.
@@ -35,6 +38,54 @@ Algorithm choices should remain replaceable behind a crypto profile. The first
 profile should prefer standard, reviewed primitives such as HPKE for key
 wrapping and AEAD encryption for content.
 
+## Product Profiles And Default
+
+The content-protection policy is configurable per exact Postbox or immutable
+template revision:
+
+- `server_envelope_v1` is the recommended default. An institution-selected
+  Encryption vault controls server-readable envelopes and their migration
+  evidence. It is not end-to-end encryption.
+- `external_e2ee_v1` is server-blind. An approved client or producer supplies
+  the ciphertext reference, signed manifest, wrapped recipient keys, key epoch,
+  and SHA-256 plaintext digest. GovOPlaN has no private key that can decrypt it.
+- `plaintext_v1` stores clear content for institutions that explicitly choose
+  that boundary.
+
+Operational metadata—including subject, routing, participants,
+classifications, timestamps, attachment references, receipts, and retention
+state—remains visible under every profile. Administrators therefore choose a
+content-protection boundary, not a metadata-anonymity profile.
+
+The standard policy grants new incumbents history since assignment, uses key
+rewrapping for ordinary rotation and content re-encryption after compromise,
+requires two-person institutional recovery and dual-control hand-over,
+emergency, export, and destruction, requires strong external identity, and
+limits vacancy escalation to metadata. Deployments may select other policy
+values rather than inheriting a decision from GovOPlaN.
+
+## Governed Profile Changes
+
+A profile transition applies to new messages immediately and increments the
+Postbox key epoch. Retained history can remain under the previous profile or be
+migrated. The transition ledger records source and target profiles/vaults,
+authority route, consent and key-holder evidence, quorum, reason, immutable
+configuration snapshot, per-message source and target digest, and outcome.
+
+Plaintext and managed-envelope migrations can use the server-side Encryption
+capability. Managed decrypt, export, and re-encryption operations also create
+Encryption migration records so old envelopes are disposed of through the
+governed provider contract. Any transition to or from E2EE pauses each retained
+message for an approved client transform. The client must return plaintext or
+ciphertext as appropriate, plus evidence and the original content digest;
+Postbox verifies digest continuity before changing the stored representation.
+Leaving E2EE requires user-consent evidence, while changing managed history
+requires institutional key-holder evidence. Dual control can require both.
+
+This transition mechanism cannot revoke plaintext already decrypted, copied,
+printed, or exported. Administrators must explicitly acknowledge that residual
+disclosure before a transition is accepted.
+
 ## Identity And Device Keys
 
 The platform should distinguish:
diff --git a/src/govoplan_core/core/postbox.py b/src/govoplan_core/core/postbox.py
index aa18004..feca51f 100644
--- a/src/govoplan_core/core/postbox.py
+++ b/src/govoplan_core/core/postbox.py
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ class PostboxDirectoryEntryRef:
     template_revision_id: str | None = None
     holder_count: int = 0
     vacant: bool = True
+    encryption_profile: str = "plaintext_v1"
+    key_epoch: int = 1
+    encryption_vault_id: str | None = None
+    protection_policy: Mapping[str, object] = field(default_factory=dict)
     access: PostboxAccessDecisionRef | None = None
     resource_revision: int = 1
     etag: str | None = None
@@ -260,6 +264,9 @@ class PostboxMessageAuthoringRequest:
     idempotency_key: str
     subject: str
     body_text: str | None = None
+    ciphertext_ref: str | None = None
+    signed_manifest_ref: str | None = None
+    wrapped_keys: tuple[PostboxWrappedKeyRef, ...] = ()
     classification: str = "internal"
     participants: tuple[PostboxParticipantRef, ...] = ()
     attachments: tuple[PostboxAttachmentRef, ...] = ()