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Basic Security in Steem

_ Hello dear friends of steemit, I am very excited about the platform and the things that I can achieve if I put a lot of effort and dedication and advancing in this I take the initiative to go first with what the platform's parameters are and begin the development of the achievement 2 which excites me a lot. ### _

Have you obtained and saved all your Steemit passwords?

_ In the first moment of creating the account to enter, it places me in the care that I have to take and if I received all my keys in the PDF doc that it brings for the different keys. ## _

Do you know all the functions and restrictions of the keys?

_ The recommended restrictions are. - Never reveal or share your data with anyone - Not publish in any way any image that could reveal said data. - Follow the security parameters offered by the platform The operation for each of them is different and with unique characteristics. - Posting key: This key is the one selected for managing the publications, it is the one that has the ability to create the publication, assign a vote, make a publication, follow or silence another account. (the period of its use is limited because it is exposed) - Activation key: With the same importance as the other, this key is destined to the management of the wallet such as transfer of funds, POWER UP / POWER DOWN, withdrawal of funds among others - Owner key: It is the only key with the ability to reassign other keys again, which will allow rotation if any of the primary keys is compromised. - Key memo: It is used for the encryption of messages and data Additionally, there is a **Master** key that is destined to generate the PDF Doc that is sent to us with all the new keys. ## _

How do you plan to keep your master key safe?

_ _I will follow the recommendations of the programs which led me to physically save my passwords to keep them really safe. I reserve the place where I keep it even though no one I think is coming for the key ## _

Do you know how to transfer your STEEM tokens to another Steem user?

_ To start this process we must go to our wallet, it will ask us for our **Activation key** to enter the wallet while on the main screen we must locate the STEEM drop-down tab. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYX78Qzc7Bjcwg9paeGntjEnXZ3UWCsmN2pt4UJsV9muH/image.png) We are located in the transfer option which takes us to a tab to enter data. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmU6ujAw2roc7viuiRfyezGtqc9Z63bfS2WCrPDkdPfEdG/image.png) In this tab we must fill in all the requested data Username to transfer, Amount of Tokens, amount to transfer and optionally we can send a message or encrypt our transaction in the **MEMO** data ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmW4NjxsQwKjoLrMQ82xonzsbbYexTCqQwE8GPFApdWycE/image.png) ## _

Do you know how to perform the power up process in Steem?

_ It is a fairly simple process and we must repeat the action of going to the wallet then locating in the **STEEM** drop-down option. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUkNgmNsPJYA6zPM5XEuChLpEoURpediuG79rHPj77Hp5/image.png) At this point we must locate ourselves and click **Turn on** which will take us to a drop-down window to fill in data ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVhEQUPEEvk7W2jvzgkGXbvZGRRVnZxhYW1xEXc6pmRnh/image.png) In this window we must fill in the amount "Amount" of STEEM that we want to convert into **Steem Power** which is reflected in our voting power. This is how this post ended to choose to verify my achievement number 2.