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The purpose of key management is to provide secure procedures for handling cryptographic keying material to be used in symmetric or asymmetric cryptographic mechanisms. This includes user registration, key generation, key distribution, key storage, and key deletion. Key management schemes depend on the type of keys to be distributed, on the given facilities and on the specific application. For almost all systems, it is necessary to distribute keys over the same communication channels by which actual data are transmitted. Secure key distribution over such a channel requires cryptographic protection and thus the availability of matching keys. This circularity has to be broken through prior distribution of keys by different means.
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Fumy, W. (1993). Key management. In: Preneel, B., Govaerts, R., Vandewalle, J. (eds) Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57341-0_58
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