Patent ID: 8074039

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: circuitry to at least one of the following sub-paragraphs (a) and (b): (a) generate, at least in part, at least one access request involving a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage, the storage being capable of accessing, in response, at least in part, to the at least one request at least one of an encryption and parity information, the encryption being of at least one of at least one portion of the data and the parity information, the encryption satisfying at least one of the following subparagraphs (c) and (d): (c) the encryption is stored in encrypted disk stripes in the storage such that the data is unrecoverable based solely upon remaining unencrypted portion of the data and the parity information stored in the storage; (d) the encryption is stored in one or more respective disk stripes having a number that is determined based at least in part upon one or more encryption levels, if any, associated with one or more characteristics of the data; and (b) receive, at least in part, the at least one request; wherein: the encryption satisfies the subparagraph (c); the storage implements a syndrome wherein two disks may be recovered; the encrypted disk stripes comprise at least three respective stripes respectively stored in at least three respective disks in the storage; and the parity information, as stored in the storage, is unencrypted, and striped in other disks in the storage that are different from the at least three respective disks.