A METHOD FOR SCANNING AN OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEM

The present disclosure relates to a method for retrieving a listing of keys associated with respective objects stored in an object storage system supporting a remote object access protocol, the keys comprising respective strings of characters encoded by means of a character encoding, the method comprising: obtaining a start key and an end key for defining a key interval for the listing; subdividing the key interval into key subintervals based on one or more intermediate keys; scanning the key subintervals, thereby retrieving a listing of the keys in the key subintervals; and wherein the subdividing comprises: representing the start key and end key as a start and an end numeric sequence according to the character encoding; and calculating the one or more intermediate keys as one or more intermediate numeric sequences from the start and end numeric sequences by means of arithmetic computation.