| (I) The process of handling and controlling cryptographic keys and
related material (such as initialization values) during their life
cycle in a cryptographic system, including ordering, generating,
distributing, storing, loading, escrowing, archiving, auditing,
and destroying the material. (See: key distribution, key escrow,
keying material, public-key infrastructure.)
(O) "The generation, storage, distribution, deletion, archiving
and application of keys in accordance with a security policy."
[I7498 Part 2]
(O) "The activities involving the handling of cryptographic keys
and other related security parameters (e.g., IVs, counters) during
the entire life cycle of the keys, including their generation,
storage, distribution, entry and use, deletion or destruction, and
archiving." [FP140]
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