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<concept id="GUID-AC2520A3-EB24-5BED-88D0-0D7D1C4D1C11" xml:lang="en"><title>keytool
Overview</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>The Symbian platform provides a key store, which is a repository
of private keys that can be programmatically retrieved and used to accomplish
a variety of tasks. The key store is initially empty. To insert private keys
and manipulate them, you can use <codeph>keytool</codeph>. </p>
<p>The Symbian keystore is meant to store private keys in a PKI setting. Keys
for symmetric cryptography cannot be stored in the keystore. </p>
<p> <codeph>Keytool</codeph> is an eshell program which manipulates the key
store. Its main features are: </p>
<ul>
<li id="GUID-3275ED27-FC5A-5317-8681-65FBD1DE3C05"><p>List the content of
a key store </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-52D36D6E-F568-5E52-9F1C-9DD0ED902DD1"><p>Insertion and Removal
of private keys </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-A4779EEA-F176-5B09-91E1-03B7F37A79C0"><p>Manipulation of the
registered users for a given key, ownership, usages, etc. </p> </li>
<li id="GUID-764C6F25-9775-5C9A-AF8C-848827405B83"><p>Support for multiple
key store implementations </p> </li>
</ul>
<p>The <codeph>keytool</codeph> must be used from an eshell. You can start
it using <filepath>eshell.exe</filepath>. </p>
</conbody><related-links>
<link href="GUID-B1FE58B4-58CC-57CB-8BB2-43CD781BF41A.dita"><linktext>keytool Tutorials</linktext>
</link>
<link href="GUID-EA864824-91E3-5A08-A316-1CE50273EF50.dita"><linktext>keytool Reference</linktext>
</link>
</related-links></concept>