Modifying an encryption key – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 31: Encryption Keys

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Section VII: Management Security

Modifying an Encryption Key

The Key Management menu has a selection for modifying the description
of an encryption key. This is the only item of a key that you can modify.
You cannot change a key’s ID, type, or length.

To change the description of a key, perform the following procedure:

1. From the Main Menu, type 7 to select Security and Services.

The Security and Services menu is shown in Figure 82 on page 259.

2. From the Security and Services menu, type 7 to select Keys/Certificate

Configuration.

The Keys/Certificate Configuration menu is shown in Figure 251 on
page 705.

3. From the Keys/Certificates Configuration menu, type 2 to select Key

Management.

The Key Management menu is shown in Figure 252 on page 706.

4. From the Key Management menu, type, type 3 to select Modify Key.

The following prompt is displayed:

Enter Key Id to modify -> [0 to 65535] -> 0

5. Enter the ID of the key whose description you want to modify.

The following prompt is displayed.

Enter new Description ->

6. Enter the new description for the key. The description can be up to 40

alphanumeric characters including spaces. To help identify the key,
you might make the description the name of the web server the key will
be used to protect (for example, Production switch web server).

The following prompt is displayed:

Press any key to continue ...

The key has been modified.

7. Press any key to return to the Key Management menu.

Returning to the Main Menu to save your changes is not necessary
with this procedure. This type of change is automatically saved by the
management software.

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