Disabling encryption

Files must be encrypted while in storage to keep sensitive data secure. In certain circumstances, such as testing or handling files that do not require security, you can disable encryption.

About this task

Encryption can be disabled for each bucket variant at the time of provisioning. Once provisioned, the encryption setting cannot be changed.

If you want to change the encryption setting on a variant, you must retire that variant and create a new variant with the same bucket name.

To disable encryption, do the following:

1. Use the storage provision command to create a new variant of the bucket where you want to disable encryption.
2. At the Store blobs encrypted?: prompt, select n.

   Data objects that are posted with encryption turned on are saved in an encrypted format. On a retrieval request, these encrypted blobs are first decrypted by the storage server and then returned to the client.