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which are related to generation, exchange, storage, safeguarding, use, vetting, and replacement of [[key (cryptography)|key]]s. There is a distinction between key management, which concerns keys at the users' level (ie, passed between systems or users or both), and [[key scheduling]] which is usually taken to apply to the handling of key material within the operation of a [[cyphercipher]] [[algorithm]].
 
Appropriate and successful key management is critical to the secure use of every crypto system without exception. It is, in actual practice, the most difficult aspect of [[cryptography]] generally, for it involves system policy, user training, organizational and departmantal interactions in many cases, coordination betwixt end users, etc.