US Patent 9262643 Encrypting files within a cloud computing environment

A system, computer readable medium and a method for encrypting a file, the method may include retrieving the file from a storage service; segmenting the file into multiple file segments; calculating a file segment signature for each of the multiple file segments to provide multiple file segment signatures; encrypting each of the multiple file segments to provide multiple encrypted file segments by using encryption keys that are in response to the multiple file segment signatures; wherein the multiple encrypted file segments form an encrypted file; and sending the multiple encrypted file segments to the storage service.