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Add info on CI/CD variable encryption

Tom Atkins requested to merge tatkins-cicd-variable-security into master

What does this MR do?

Adds info about how CI/CD variables are encrypted to the docs.

Slack discussion: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C0AR2KW4B/p1583161080371800

we have a customer that is interested in understanding where masked variables are stored for GitLab,com (assuming self-managed will be in their database). I don't see any explanation for how secrets are stored or levels of encryption.

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