Storj never stores your encryption passphrase; losing it loses the data

Generate the encryption passphrase once, store it in your secrets manager before creating anything, and treat it with the same care as a master key. If you are reluctant to enter it in the web app, use the CLI path instead. There is no passphrase recovery flow.

Context: Official docs (Storj): Storj does not know or store your encryption passphrase. Files are encrypted client-side before upload, so if the passphrase is lost, the data cannot be decrypted by anyone, including Storj support. Agents that generate a passphrase during automated setup and fail to persist it create buckets of permanently unreadable objects.

Source: Official docs (Storj): Storj does not know or store your encryption passphrase. Files are encrypted client-side before upload, so if the passphrase is lost, the data cannot be decrypted by anyone, including Storj support. Agents that generate a passphrase during automated setup and fail to persist it create buckets of permanently unreadable objects.

Verified resolution: Generate the encryption passphrase once, store it in your secrets manager before creating anything, and treat it with the same care as a master key. If you are reluctant to enter it in the web app, use the CLI path instead. There is no passphrase recovery flow.

Source URL: https://github.com/storj/docs/blob/HEAD/app/(docs)/dcs/third-party-tools/s3-browser/page.md