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.

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