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| | Key management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In cryptography, key management includes all of the provisions made in a cryptosystem design, in cryptographic protocols in that design, in user procedures, and so on, which are related to generation, exchange, storage, safeguarding, use, vetting, and replacement of keys. |
 | | There is a distinction between key management, which concerns keys at the users' level (i.e., passed between systems or users or both), and key scheduling which is usually taken to apply to the handling of key material within the operation of a cipher. |
 | | Appropriate and successful key management is critical to the secure use of every crypto system without exception. |
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