Generate an Importer Key For File Encryption

You can have KGUP create an importer key without having KGUP store information about the complement of the key. You do not use the importer key in key exchange with another system. You use the importer key to encrypt a data-encrypting key that you use to encrypt data in a file on your system. You can store the data-encrypting key with the file, because the data-encrypting key is encrypted under the importer key.

These statements show the syntax when you generate an importer key to use in file encryption on a system:

When you generate a single-length key value:

   ADD or UPDATE  LABEL(label) or RANGE(start-label,end-label),
   TYPE(importer)  SINGLE

When you generate a double-length key value:

   ADD or UPDATE  LABEL(label) or RANGE(start-label,end-label),
   TYPE(importer)