4. Using Standard Edition in Spectra T950 and T120 Libraries
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Creating an Encryption Key
1.
From the Encryption Configuration
screen, select
Add Key
. The New
Encryption Key screen displays.
2.
Enter a name in the Moniker field
that has not been used for any
other encryption key, and that uses
any combination of the numbers
0-9
, lower and upper case
alphabetic characters (
a-z
and
A-Z
),
and the at sign (@), dash (-), and
colon (:) characters.
Use an underscore character
instead of an empty space to
separate characters.
This moniker is the name that you will use to reference the key.
Note that the real key value
never
displays and that administrators don’t ever need to
specify the real key value in order to encrypt data or manage keys. The moniker helps
to protect data encrypted using the key; it does so by making sure that the true key
value isn’t displayed.
Rules for Creating Monikers
• Each moniker must be a unique string of characters, independent of case.
• Make a habit of using a single case (all upper or all lower) for monikers. After
export, case is ignored, so that keys associated with the monikers Moniker1,
moniker1, and MONIKER1 are interpreted as a single key. If you have two monikers
that are identical except for case, then you may not be able to retrieve some of your
data after importing such a key.