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 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, ProtectToolkit-M will mark the affected keyset as being invalid.

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 ProtectToolkit-C package. See ctkmu and Key Management Utility (KMU) reference for more information about these utilities.

See Key backup procedure for example procedures and more information.