US Patent 11991280 Randomized transforms in a dispersed data storage system

A method for execution by one or more modules of one or more processors of a storage network includes receiving a data object for storage, segmenting the data object into a plurality of data segments and determining a level of security and a level of performance for the plurality of data segments. The method continues by determining whether one or more data segments of the plurality of data segments is to be transformed using an all-or-nothing transformation and in response to a determination to transform one or more data segments of the plurality of data segments, transforming a data segment of the plurality of data segments to produce a transformed data segment. The method continues by dispersed error encoding the transformed data segment to produce a set of encoded data slices and transmitting the set of encoded data slices to a set of storage units of the storage network.