Encrypting and shredding data

6. Select Prompt for new password for all keys in package if you want to create a new password for the key package.

If you select this option, you will be prompted to provide the new password when you click OK on the Export Keys dialog box. You will subsequently be prompted for this password when you try to import a key from this package. In addition, all keys imported from this package will use this new password rather than the password originally associated with each key.

If you clear this option, this package will use the same password as the first selected key (which appears in the Password for All Keys in Package area), and you must provide this password when you try to import a key from this package. You must also provide this password when you subsequently change, delete, or export any key imported from this package.

7.In the Save in this directory text box, type the full path for the file.

8.Click OK.

If you selected the Prompt for new password for all keys in package check box, type the new password (10–16 characters) in the New Password and Confirm Password text boxes, type a hint for that password (0–32 characters) in the Password Hint text box.

A file with the specified package name and the extension .key is created in the specified location.

Stop here.

Importing a key

Once you have created a key package, you can open that package and specify which keys to import into VTL. Once you import a key, you can use that key to encrypt or decrypt data.

To import a key:

1.In the navigation tree, right‐click the server name and click Key Management.

2.Click Import.

3.In the Find Package text box, type the full path to the key package.

4.Click View.

5.Type the password for accessing the key package in the Password text box.

Note: After you provide the password, make sure that the displayed Decryption Hint matches the decryption hint specified when the key package was created. If the hint is not correct, click Password and provide the correct password for accessing

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