1. A method for execution by a processing module, the method comprises: encrypting a data segment of data using an encryption key to produce encrypted data; encoding the encryption key to produce an encoded encryption key; combining the encrypted data and the encoded encryption key to produce transformed data; error encoding the transformed data to produce a set of encoded data slices, wherein the error encoding of the transformed data by the processing module further comprises: slicing the transformed data into k data slices; error encoding the k data slices to produce n encoded data slices; and arranging the n encoded data slices into the set of encoded data slices; and outputting, via a network, the set of encoded data slices to storage nodes of a dispersed storage network.