1. A method for processing an encryption key within a portion of a distributed storage network (DSN), the method comprises: receiving an encryption key to store; determining an encryption method; encrypting the encryption key with the determined encryption method to produce an encrypted key; encoding the encrypted key in accordance with a dispersed storage error coding function to produce a set of encoded encrypted key slices, wherein a decode threshold number of the encoded encrypted key slices of the set of encoded encrypted key slices are required to reconstruct the encrypted key; and storing the set of encoded encrypted key slices in DSN memory.