Patent ID: 8813204
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for a multi-phase authentication process in a dispersed storage network (DSN), where a data segment of data is encoded in accordance with a dispersed storage error encoding function to produce a set of encoded data slices and wherein the set of encoded data slices is stored in storage units of the DSN, the method comprises: authenticating, by a managing unit of the DSN, an access request regarding the set of encoded data slices; when the access request is authenticated, generating, based on the access request regarding the set of encoded data slices, storage unit access requests to access the storage units; authenticating, by the managing unit, the storage unit access requests; and when the storage unit access requests are authenticated, executing, by the storage units, the storage unit access requests to fulfill the access request regarding the set of encoded data slices.