Restoring a Keyset

Precautions

>To restore a key that was previously backed up, the same password and keyset name must be used.

>Extreme care should be taken to ensure that keys which are being restored DO NOT already exist on the SafeNet ProtectToolkit-M system. A restore operation DOES NOT replace existing keys, but will restore a second instance of the same key pair. If you have accidentally created multiple instances of the same key pair, SafeNet ProtectToolkit-M will mark the affected keyset as being invalid. Please refer to Known Issues for details on how to address this type of problem.

Keyset restore is accomplished with the command line tool ctkmu or the GUI tool kmu. Both the ctkmu utility and the kmu utility are included in the SafeNet ProtectToolkit-C package. See the Command Line Utilities Reference and the Key Management Utility (KMU) Reference for more information.

See the Key Restore Procedure for example procedures and more information.