diff --git a/docs/migration.html.in b/docs/migration.html.in
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@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
       of ports on the firewall to allow multiple concurrent migration operations.
     </p>
 
+    <p>
+      Modern hypervisors support TLS for encryption and authentication of the
+      migration connections which can be enabled using the
+      <code>VIR_MIGRATE_TLS</code> flag. The <em>qemu</em> hypervisor driver
+      allows users to force use of TLS via the <code>migrate_tls_force</code>
+      knob configured in <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</code>.
+    </p>
+
     <p>
       <img class="diagram" src="migration-native.png" alt="Migration native path"/>
     </p>