Patent ID: 8856549
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A distributed storage (DS) unit comprises: a plurality of memory devices operable to store a plurality of collections of encrypted and encoded data slices, wherein a collection of encrypted and encoded data slices of the plurality of collections of encrypted and encoded data slices includes a common data aspect, wherein encrypted and encoded data slices of the collection of encrypted and encoded data slices are produced by individually encrypting corresponding encoded data slices using a common encrypting character string and representations of the corresponding encoded data slices, and wherein the corresponding encoded data slices are dispersed storage error encoded portions of a plurality of data segments; local memory operable to store the common encrypting character string regarding the collection of encrypted and encoded data slices and to store the representations of the corresponding encoded data slices; and a processing module operable to: