diff --git a/cmd/cat-main.go b/cmd/cat-main.go
index 685546af..7a344133 100644
--- a/cmd/cat-main.go
+++ b/cmd/cat-main.go
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ EXAMPLES:
 
   4. Save an encrypted object from Amazon S3 cloud storage to a local file.
      $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key 's3/mysql-backups=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1' s3/mysql-backups/backups-201810.gz > /mnt/data/recent.gz
+
+  5. Display the content of encrypted object. In case the encryption key contains non-printable character like tab, pass the
+     base64 encoded string as key.
+     $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "play/my-bucket/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZXRrZQltdXN0YmVnaXZlbjE="  play/my-bucket/my-object
 `,
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/common-methods.go b/cmd/common-methods.go
index 66431c20..50b69943 100644
--- a/cmd/common-methods.go
+++ b/cmd/common-methods.go
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ package cmd
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -32,6 +34,36 @@ import (
 	"github.com/minio/minio-go/v6/pkg/encrypt"
 )
 
+// decode if the key is encoded key and returns the key
+func getDecodedKey(sseKeys string) (key string, err *probe.Error) {
+	keyString := ""
+	for i, sse := range strings.Split(sseKeys, ",") {
+		if i > 0 {
+			keyString = keyString + ","
+		}
+		sseString, err := parseKey(sse)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		keyString = keyString + sseString
+	}
+	return keyString, nil
+}
+
+// Validate the key
+func parseKey(sseKeys string) (sse string, err *probe.Error) {
+	encryptString := strings.SplitN(sseKeys, "=", 2)
+	secretValue := encryptString[1]
+	if len(secretValue) == 32 {
+		return sseKeys, nil
+	}
+	decodedString, e := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(secretValue)
+	if e != nil || len(decodedString) != 32 {
+		return "", probe.NewError(errors.New("Encryption key should be 32 bytes plain text key or 44 bytes base64 encoded key"))
+	}
+	return encryptString[0] + "=" + string(decodedString), nil
+}
+
 // parse and return encryption key pairs per alias.
 func getEncKeys(ctx *cli.Context) (map[string][]prefixSSEPair, *probe.Error) {
 	sseServer := os.Getenv("MC_ENCRYPT")
@@ -46,6 +78,13 @@ func getEncKeys(ctx *cli.Context) (map[string][]prefixSSEPair, *probe.Error) {
 		}
 		sseKeys = keyPrefix
 	}
+	var err *probe.Error
+	if sseKeys != "" {
+		sseKeys, err = getDecodedKey(sseKeys)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err.Trace(sseKeys)
+		}
+	}
 
 	encKeyDB, err := parseAndValidateEncryptionKeys(sseKeys, sseServer)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/common-methods_test.go b/cmd/common-methods_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e30f6635
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/common-methods_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * MinIO Client (C) 2019 MinIO, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestGetDecodedKey(t *testing.T) {
+	getDecodeCases := []struct {
+		input  string
+		output string
+		err    error
+		status bool
+	}{
+		//success scenario the key contains non printable (tab) character as key
+		{"s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=", "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecreabcdefg	givenn21", nil, true},
+		//success scenario the key contains non printable (tab character) as key
+		{"s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=,play/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZXRrZQltdXN0YmVnaXZlbjE=", "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecreabcdefg	givenn21,play/documents/=32byteslongsecretke	mustbegiven1", nil, true},
+		// success scenario using a normal string
+		{"s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1", "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1", nil, true},
+		// success scenario using a normal string
+		{"s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,myminio/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven2", "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,myminio/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven2", nil, true},
+		// success scenario using a mix of normal string and encoded string
+		{"s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=,play/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1", "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecreabcdefg	givenn21,play/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1", nil, true},
+		// success scenario using a mix of normal string and encoded string
+		{"play/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=", "play/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,s3/documents/=32byteslongsecreabcdefg	givenn21", nil, true},
+		// decoded key less than 32 char and conatin non printable (tab) character
+		{"s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE", "", errors.New("Encryption key should be 32 bytes plain text key or 44 bytes base64 encoded key"), false},
+		// normal key less than 32 character
+		{"s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven", "", errors.New("Encryption key should be 32 bytes plain text key or 44 bytes base64 encoded key"), false},
+	}
+
+	for idx, testCase := range getDecodeCases {
+		decodedString, errDecode := getDecodedKey(testCase.input)
+		if testCase.status == true {
+			if errDecode != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Test %d: generated error not matching, expected = `%s`, found = `%s`", idx+1, testCase.err, errDecode)
+			}
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(decodedString, testCase.output) {
+				t.Fatalf("Test %d: generated key not matching, expected = `%s`, found = `%s`", idx+1, testCase.input, decodedString)
+			}
+		}
+
+		if testCase.status == false {
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(decodedString, testCase.output) {
+				t.Fatalf("Test %d: generated Map not matching, expected = `%s`, found = `%s`", idx+1, testCase.input, errDecode)
+			}
+			if errDecode.Cause.Error() != testCase.err.Error() {
+				t.Fatalf("Test %d: generated error not matching, expected = `%s`, found = `%s`", idx+1, testCase.err, errDecode)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/cp-main.go b/cmd/cp-main.go
index 2d4e0469..374d2c8b 100644
--- a/cmd/cp-main.go
+++ b/cmd/cp-main.go
@@ -115,13 +115,17 @@ EXAMPLES:
   09. Copy a folder with encrypted objects recursively from Amazon S3 to MinIO cloud storage.
       $ {{.HelpName}} --recursive --encrypt-key "s3/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,myminio/documents/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven2" s3/documents/ myminio/documents/
 
-  10. Copy a list of objects from local file system to MinIO cloud storage with specified metadata.
+  10. Copy a folder with encrypted objects recursively from Amazon S3 to MinIO cloud storage. In case the encryption key contains non-printable character like tab, pass the
+      base64 encoded string as key.
+      $ {{.HelpName}} --recursive --encrypt-key "s3/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=,myminio/documents/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=" s3/documents/ myminio/documents/
+	  
+  11. Copy a list of objects from local file system to MinIO cloud storage with specified metadata.
       $ {{.HelpName}} --attr key1=value1,key2=value2 Music/*.mp4 play/mybucket/
 			
-  11. Copy a folder recursively from MinIO cloud storage to Amazon S3 cloud storage with specified metadata.
+  12. Copy a folder recursively from MinIO cloud storage to Amazon S3 cloud storage with specified metadata.
       $ {{.HelpName}} --attr Cache-Control=max-age=90000,min-fresh=9000\;key1=value1\;key2=value2 --recursive play/mybucket/burningman2011/ s3/mybucket/
 
-  12. Copy a text file to an object storage and assign REDUCED_REDUNDANCY storage-class to the uploaded object.
+  13. Copy a text file to an object storage and assign REDUCED_REDUNDANCY storage-class to the uploaded object.
       $ {{.HelpName}} --storage-class REDUCED_REDUNDANCY myobject.txt play/mybucket
  `,
 }
@@ -489,6 +493,11 @@ func mainCopy(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 	if key := ctx.String("encrypt-key"); key != "" {
 		sseKeys = key
 	}
+
+	if sseKeys != "" {
+		sseKeys, err = getDecodedKey(sseKeys)
+		fatalIf(err, "Unable to parse encryption keys.")
+	}
 	sse := ctx.String("encrypt")
 
 	session := newSessionV8()
diff --git a/cmd/cp-main_test.go b/cmd/cp-main_test.go
index f20c6b22..24fc11d8 100644
--- a/cmd/cp-main_test.go
+++ b/cmd/cp-main_test.go
@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ func TestParseMetaData(t *testing.T) {
 		err    error
 		status bool
 	}{
-		// success scenerio using ; as delimitter
+		// success scenario using ; as delimiter
 		{"key1=value1;key2=value2", map[string]string{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}, nil, true},
-		// success scenerio using ; as delimitter
+		// success scenario using ; as delimiter
 		{"key1=m1=m2,m3=m4;key2=value2", map[string]string{"key1": "m1=m2,m3=m4", "key2": "value2"}, nil, true},
-		// success scenerio using = more than once
+		// success scenario using = more than once
 		{"Cache-Control=max-age=90000,min-fresh=9000;key1=value1;key2=value2", map[string]string{"Cache-Control": "max-age=90000,min-fresh=9000", "key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}, nil, true},
-		// using different delimitter, other than '=' between key value
+		// using different delimiter, other than '=' between key value
 		{"key1:value1;key2:value2", nil, ErrInvalidMetadata, false},
-		// using no delimitter
+		// using no delimiter
 		{"key1:value1:key2:value2", nil, ErrInvalidMetadata, false},
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/head-main.go b/cmd/head-main.go
index 9570a334..ad0d102d 100644
--- a/cmd/head-main.go
+++ b/cmd/head-main.go
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ EXAMPLES:
 
   2. Display only first line from server encrypted object on Amazon S3.
      $ {{.HelpName}} -n 1 --encrypt-key 's3/csv-data=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1' s3/csv-data/population.csv
+	 
+  3. Display only first line from server encrypted object on Amazon S3. In case the encryption key contains non-printable character like tab, pass the
+     base64 encoded string as key.
+     $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "s3/json-data=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZXRrZQltdXN0YmVnaXZlbjE="  s3/json-data/population.json
 `,
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/mirror-main.go b/cmd/mirror-main.go
index 225622f3..0460f2b8 100644
--- a/cmd/mirror-main.go
+++ b/cmd/mirror-main.go
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ EXAMPLES:
 
   11. Mirror server encrypted objects from MinIO cloud storage to a bucket on Amazon S3 cloud storage
       $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "minio/photos=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,s3/archive=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven2" minio/photos/ s3/archive/
+
+  12. Mirror server encrypted objects from MinIO cloud storage to a bucket on Amazon S3 cloud storage. In case the encryption key contains
+      non-printable character like tab, pass the base64 encoded string as key.
+      $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "s3/photos/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1,play/archive/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZXRrZQltdXN0YmVnaXZlbjE=" s3/photos/ play/archive/
 `,
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/stat-main.go b/cmd/stat-main.go
index a63429d7..c9342aa1 100644
--- a/cmd/stat-main.go
+++ b/cmd/stat-main.go
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ EXAMPLES:
 
   4. Stat encrypted files on Amazon S3 cloud storage.
      $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "s3/personal-docs/=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1" s3/personal-docs/2018-account_report.docx
+
+  5. Stat encrypted files on Amazon S3 cloud storage. In case the encryption key contains non-printable character like tab, pass the
+     base64 encoded string as key.
+     $ {{.HelpName}} --encrypt-key "s3/personal-document/=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=" s3/personal-document/2019-account_report.docx
 `,
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.md b/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.md
index 603057dc..e308fc80 100644
--- a/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.md
+++ b/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.md
@@ -403,6 +403,13 @@ mc cat --encrypt-key "play/mybucket=32byteslongsecretkeymustbegiven1" play/mybuc
 Hello MinIO!!
 ```
 
+*Example: Display the contents of a server encrypted object `myencryptedobject.txt`. Pass base64 encoded string if encryption key contains non-printable character like tab*
+
+```
+mc cat --encrypt-key "play/mybucket=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE=" play/mybucket/myencryptedobject.txt
+Hello MinIO!!
+```
+
 <a name="sql"></a>
 ### Command `sql` - Run sql queries on objects
 `sql` run sql queries on objects.
diff --git a/functional-tests.sh b/functional-tests.sh
index 37f6e693..38e76768 100755
--- a/functional-tests.sh
+++ b/functional-tests.sh
@@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ function test_put_object_with_sse()
     log_success "$start_time" "${FUNCNAME[0]}"
 }
 
+function test_put_object_with_encoded_sse()
+{
+    show "${FUNCNAME[0]}"
+    start_time=$(get_time)
+    object_name="mc-test-object-$RANDOM"
+    cli_flag="${SERVER_ALIAS}/${BUCKET_NAME}=MzJieXRlc2xvbmdzZWNyZWFiY2RlZmcJZ2l2ZW5uMjE="
+    # put encrypted object; then delete with correct secret key
+    assert_success "$start_time" "${FUNCNAME[0]}" mc_cmd cp --encrypt-key "${cli_flag}" "${FILE_1_MB}" "${SERVER_ALIAS}/${BUCKET_NAME}/${object_name}"
+    assert_success "$start_time" "${FUNCNAME[0]}" mc_cmd rm --encrypt-key "${cli_flag}" "${SERVER_ALIAS}/${BUCKET_NAME}/${object_name}"
+    log_success "$start_time" "${FUNCNAME[0]}"
+}
+
 function test_put_object_with_sse_error()
 {
     show "${FUNCNAME[0]}"
@@ -845,6 +857,7 @@ function run_test()
 
     if [ "$ENABLE_HTTPS" == "1" ]; then
         test_put_object_with_sse
+        test_put_object_with_encoded_sse
         test_put_object_with_sse_error
         test_put_object_multipart_sse
         test_get_object_with_sse