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S3 BUCKET ENCRYPTION DOESN'T WORK THE WAY YOU THINK IT WORKS

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Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

S3 Bucket Encryption options all equate to access control more than encryption. In nearly every S3 encryption option (default SSE, KMS, and SSE-C), the user can either download the decrypted file if they have permissions to the encryption material or cannot download the file. Since a user never actually interacts with the encrypted file, the encryption feels more like access control.