Symmetric Keys

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Symmetric Keys
Symmetric Keys is used to encrypt data & other symmetric key.
It use a single key to encrypt data as a result it is faster than Asymmetric Key.
It use AES algorithm with 128,192,256 length.
It can be protected by Password, other symmetric, asymmetric or certificate.
Symmetric Keys is unable to backup.
Microsoft recommend that we use it.

Create Symmetric Key

DROP Symmetric Key

Change encryption method of Symmetric
We need to add the new method
and then drop the old method

Author: Joe Chan