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Managing the Private Key and Certificate

Assymetric Asymetric encryption makes use of a Private Key and Certificate/Public Key that can be created in a number of ways:

• Users can create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and ask their Certificate Authority (CA) to sign the CSR and to receive an X.509 Certificate. The X.509 Private Key or Certificate X.509 Certificate allow to derive the Public Key.
• User can create a self-signed X.509 Certificate, see JS7 - How to create self-signed Certificates.
• Users can create a Private Key and Certificate as explained in the next chapter.

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The cmdlet returns a single string value that holds the following elements separated by spaces:

• encrypted assymetric asymetric key
• initialization vector
• encrypted secret or path to encrypted output file if the -File and -OutFile arguments are used.

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