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| | FIPS 140-1 - Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules |
 | | Key management: the activities involving the handling of cryptographic keys and other related security parameters (e.g., IVs, counters) during the entire life cycle of the keys, including their generation, storage, distribution, entry and use, deletion or destruction, and archiving. |
 | | Cryptographic key management is concerned with the entire life cycle of the cryptographic keys employed with a cryptographic-based security system, including their generation, distribution, entry and use, storage, destruction and archiving. |
 | | Manually-distributed cryptographic keys may be entered into or output from a cryptographic module either by purely manual methods (e.g., via a keyboard, rotary switches, thumbwheels, or LCD displays) or by electronic methods (e.g., via memory cards/tokens such as magnetic-striped cards and integrated circuit (IC) chip devices, smart cards/tokens, or other electronic key loaders). |
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