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Storage of Keys and Certificates

CA Access Control stores keys and certificates as follows.

• Symmetric keys are stored as in eTrust Access Control r8 SP1.
• Certificates (subject certificate, private key, and root certificate) are stored on the file system and protected by CA Access Control.

  Note: CA Access Control encrypts the private key using AES symmetric encryption (from the CAPKI libraries) using CA Access Control symmetric key.