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industry2026-05-236 min read

When your GDPR auditor asks "why are backups plaintext?" — Cloudflare's server-side encryption doesn't answer it; R2 + AES-GCM does

External GDPR auditor René: "Disk-level server-side encryption only mitigates the lost-disk threat. A leaked R2 token = 1GB plaintext PII dump exfiltrated." Application-layer AES-256-GCM is the answer: PR #585 XX F2 backup-crypto.ts + per-multipart-part wrap.

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