An optional parameter to set the Customer-Supplied Encryption key for rewrite source object.
Application developers can generate their own encryption keys to protect the data in GCS. This is known as a Customer-Supplied Encryption key (CSEK). If the application provides a CSEK, GCS does not retain the key. The object data, the object CRC32 checksum, and its MD5 hash (if applicable) are all encrypted with this key, and the key is required to read any of these elements back.
Care must be taken to save and protect these keys, if lost, the data is not recoverable. Also, applications should avoid generating predictable keys, as this weakens the encryption.
This option is used only in rewrite operations and it defines the key used for the source object.
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