Managing cryptographic keys

To perform cryptographic services, you need to know how to create, maintain, and use cryptographic keys. This topic discusses CCA key in detail and gives an overview for PKCS #11 keys. For a detail description of PKCS #11, see z/OS Cryptographic Services ICSF Writing PKCS #11 Applications.

There are three types of cryptographic key data sets:

Cryptographic key data set (CKDS).
PKA cryptographic key data set (PKDS).
PKCS #11 token data set (TKDS).

See Setting up and maintaining cryptographic key data sets for additional details.