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sbidy authored Jul 3, 2017
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You will then be prompted to select the certificates via the KeyManagerUI for which the key should be encrypted. The certificates that are presented were retrieved from the Windows certificate (CAPI) store or you import a flat file (.crt).

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Encrypting the key for multiple certificates is useful in various scenarios -- you have two different keys and certificates on different machines, you want to share the password database with a group of people (e.g. in SharePoint, git) etc.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have access to at least one private key corresponding to the certificates. As well, be sure to back up those private keys or ensure that they are recoverable in some way. You will not be able to open the database without it.
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