Encryption Keys

An encryption key is a string of random characters that is used to bring data to a scrambled format and back to unscrambled. Encryption keys encode and decode initial data blocks or underlying keys in the key hierarchy.

Veeam Agent uses 4 types of keys:

• 3 service keys generated by Veeam Agent:

• Session Key

• Metakey
• Storage key

• 1 key generated based on a user password: a user key.