Black Box ET0010A User Manual

Creating Distributed Key Policies

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EncrypTight User Guide

To add a new hub and spoke policy:
1 In the Policy view, right-click anywhere in the view and click Add Hub and Spoke Policy.

2 Double click the new policy name added to the policy list.
3 Create the policy in the Hub and Spoke Policy editor described in 

. The policy editor is 

shown in 

4 Click Save when complete. 

Enter a unique name to identify the policy. Names can be 1 - 40 characters in 

length. Alphanumeric characters and spaces are valid. The special characters 

<, >, &, ,“ *, ?, /, \, : and | cannot be used in the policy name. Names are not 

case sensitive.

Enter the priority for this policy from 1 to 65000. PEPs enforce policies in 

descending priority order with the highest priority number processed first.

Specifies the lifetime of the keys and policies, and the frequency at which the 

keys are regenerated and the policies’ lifetimes are updated on the PEPs. 

Regenerate keys and update policies either at a specified interval in hours or 

daily at a specified time. Click either Hours or Daily.
• Hours - enter the re-key interval in hours between 0 and 65535 hours. 0 

hours causes keys and policies to never expire and never update. Use 0 

hours for drop and clear policy types. 

• Daily - enter the re-key time using the 24 hour system clock set to the 

required local time of the ETPM workstation. The re-key time will translate to 

the local times of the ETKMSs and PEPs that might be located in other time 

zones.

Specifies the action applied to packets that match the protocol and networks 

included in this policy.
• Drop - drops all packets matching this policy.
• Bypass - passes all packets matching this policy in the clear.
• IPSec - encrypts or decrypts all packets matching this policy.