Patent attributes
Methods and apparatus for use in a dispersed storage network (DSN) to enable non-interactive information dispersal. In various examples, a computing device dispersed storage error encodes a data segment of a data object to produce a set of encoded data slices. Utilizing a secret key, the computing device encrypts an encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices to produce an encrypted data slice. The computing device also encrypts the secret key, utilizing a public key of a storage unit of the DSN. The encrypted data slice and the encrypted secret key are combined by the computing device to create a package. A signature operation is performed on the package to generate a signed package, which is sent to the DSN storage unit. The signature operation can include generating a hash digest of the package and encrypting the hash digest utilizing a private key of the computing device.
