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***Hello Hive Friend's, how are you today?, I hope you are doing well***

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*Today I will make a post about Hive Keys starting from the introduction and also how to secure it. As explained by Moderator @prayzz in his post, and this post aims to complete the Stage-02 Verification in Hive Learners Community.
task.*

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Hive itself is a personal blog which is of course only for one person for each account, just like home, office, and bank, in a Hive account there are many valuable items that must be protected such as Personal Data, Tokens, Hive Dollars and so on which of course we don't. want it to fall into the hands of someone else. So to deal with this, Hive itself provides security in the form of Keys which are given well in advance when we first register, not only one, but there are many Keys, of course, each of which functions for each activity. If you notice, almost every activity in Hive Blog requires one of these Keys, if not, then the activity or action that we will do will not be verified. For example, the Hive Dollars to Hive token converter requires one of these Key's as a verification tool.
And here I will describe a little and introduce Hive Keys and the way I do it to secure it. Let's take a good look.

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>***Hive Keys and description***:

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**1. Master Key** : Key's are the main and strongest in the Hive Blockchain, usually these Key are rarely used for small activities. Usually Key are used for very large and very risky actions such as actions related to Password Hive or others.

**2. Active Key** : This key is still slightly stronger after the Master Key, and takes second place. This key is mostly used for actions that are less risky than the Master Key, and also this Key is used more often than the Master Key. Usually this key is used for all activities related to user Profiles, Relationships with other users, related to Voting and Conversions, and everything related to *Wallet*.

**3. Posting Key** : The Post Key is one of the most common Keys in the Hive Blockchain. They are used in almost all major activities in the Hive Blockchain and are also very widely used in anything related to Posting, as the name suggests *Posting Key*. This key is also used when we interact with fellow users on the Hive Blockchain, such as Vote, Reblog, or Follow.

**4. Memo Key** : Memo Key is the key that is rarely used, not because it is not important, but the function of this key is very rarely used, even for people who have played in the Hive Blockchain for a long time. The function of the Memo Key is to encrypt messages including sending and viewing them.

**5. Owner Key** : The Owner Key can function as a multipurpose key in the Hive Blockchain. Its purpose is to change keys that have additional permissions and that's where the Owner Key functions as permission. Owner Key is one of the important keys that must be stored properly.

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>***How to see your Hive Keys ?***

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There is a way to find and view your Hive Keys, and you can learn more there, and I'll show you the steps. Listen carefully:

***Step 1 : Open your Wallet***

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***Step 2 : Press "Keys & Permissions"***

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***Step 3 : Press "Reveal" to see your Keys, Below are the Permissions or the use of each Key***

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>***Steps to keep your Keys safe***

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As I explained above, Hive Keys are something that is very important to keep, you will lose everything including your money if these Keys fall into someone else's hands. But fear not, after doing some research, I managed to put together some steps to secure your Hive Keys, read carefully.

***1. Make sure you don't give or show it to other people***
If you still want to see your Hive account, it's best to avoid this stupid action.

***2. Never access links that try to request your Keys***
Keep in mind that Hive will not ask for Keys via a link, they will ask for it directly if you access an activity. So you can be sure the link that asks for your Keys is a fishing link used to trap you, how it works, if you access the link, your Keys will be automatically seen by them.

***3. You can save or write it in a safe place***
The safest and simplest way is to try to keep your Keys in a safe place or if you prefer, try to write them down on paper or some other safe place and keep them. You can also trust a trusted or verified file storage application like Google Drive or something like that.

For now that's all I can explain in order to secure your account from theft and others. Maybe you have a more powerful way or something, that's up to you. The point is to keep your Hive Keys super safe.

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>***The question for those who have a reputation between 25-59***

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***1. How much do you know about security of Hive Keys ?***

Actually I'm just a beginner and I don't know much about securing Hive Keys, but what I'm going to do is try to hide them in a safe place so no one else knows.

***2. Do you have some idea about the important of these Keys ?***

As I explained and you all know this. Every social media has passwords and Keys like the Hive Blockchain, of course these Keys must be maintained very well because this is a very vital part of the Hive Blockchain. My advice, you have to really take care of this or you lose everything.

***3. Do you know how to locate of Hive's Security Keys ?***

As you have seen above I have made steps to find and view your Hive's Security Keys all you have to do is open your Wallet, Keys & Permissions and you can see all your Keys.

***4. The function of each Keys***

**Master Keys, has uses for :**
- Changing Passwords 
- Other things related to changing account attributes

**Posting Keys, has uses for :**
- Publish or Comment a Post
- Edit a Post
- Upvote and Downvote
- Reblog Content
- Follow People 
- Mute accounts

**Active Keys, has uses for :**
- Tranfer Tokens
- Power Up or Power Down
- HBD Conversion
- Vote for Witnesses
- Place an Order on a exchange
- Certain Profile Changes
- Publish a Witness price feed
- Create a new user

**Owner Key, has uses for :**
- Reset Owner, Active, and Posting Keys
- Recover your account
- Decline Voting rights

**Memo Key, has uses for :**
- Send an encrypted Message
- View an encrypted Message

**What actions do you take to keep your Hive's Keys safe?**

To keep my Hive's Keys, I of course keep it in a safe place, I also choose several file storage applications that I think are safe, I also copy them, I even store them on my Flashdisk for further security, I even separate the Flashdisk that contains Hive's Keys with a flash that I can use, I do this to keep it safe. Basically I hid it in a place that only I knew. 

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