At the time of migrating encrypted data into another storage apparatus,
decrypt this data after migration is simplified, and security against
tapping, falsification and the like is maintained when a calculation
method of encrypted data is re-written into another calculation method,
and also access performance is improved. In a storage system 100 which is
provided with a storage apparatus having a volume 120 and which is
accessible from a host computer, it is made possible to execute the data
migration when a storage apparatus provided with a mechanism capable of
decrypting the encrypted data is chosen as a migration destination of
this data, and also to keep holding surely the encrypted data by updating
and saving again an encryption method applied to a encryption of the
encrypted data into another method by internal processing of the
apparatus even when the apparatus and the encryption method become
obsolete.