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TB - FX5U GXW3 Using Security Key With SD Card

This document discusses how to use security keys with SD cards to restrict program reading and execution on Mitsubishi PLCs. It provides a 3 step process: 1) Create and register a security key in GX Works3, 2) Register the key with the GX Works3 project and PLC CPU, and 3) Write the project to an SD card which will include the security key information. Using security keys ensures programs can only be transferred and run if the correct key is present in both the project and CPU.

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TB - FX5U GXW3 Using Security Key With SD Card

This document discusses how to use security keys with SD cards to restrict program reading and execution on Mitsubishi PLCs. It provides a 3 step process: 1) Create and register a security key in GX Works3, 2) Register the key with the GX Works3 project and PLC CPU, and 3) Write the project to an SD card which will include the security key information. Using security keys ensures programs can only be transferred and run if the correct key is present in both the project and CPU.

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 

Technical Bulletin 
FX5U GXW3 Using Security Key with SD Card 
Rev A 

It is possible to automatically download PLC program from an SD card to a PLC without using GX Works3. 
See FX5U GXW3 Using Device Initial Values and SD Card Loader Technical Bulletin for more information. 

Using a Security Key, PLC Program reading and execution can be restricted.    

Also using a security key with a SD card ensures the ease of program transfers, without compromising 
theft or human error of downloading the wrong program to a PLC. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
Step 1: Create a New Security Key  
Use Security Key Management… Menu 

   

Select New… and Enter a Name.    

Multiple Security Keys can be stored, created, exported and imported in one GXW3 Project. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
Once a Security Key is created it can be Export from GXW3.  This allows the Key to be shared 
with other authorized uses of this PLC Program.   Select Expiration Date of Key and other 
Options as need.  A password will be required for Importing to GXW3 later as needed. 

From the same menu you can Import a Security Key into GXW3. 

Select Import and search for the *.ity file to Import.  Enter the Password and click OK. 

It will now appear in the List. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
Step 2: Register key 
Use Security Key Setting… Menu 

Register with (a) GX Work3 Project File, and (b) CPU using Security Key Setting.  

(a) Register with GXW3 Project File     
 
Select Project Tab and then the Project items (Project, Program, Scan, MAIN) you want to 
register.  Select Register Key. 
                                                                       

Once you register to the Project you will get a Setting Completed message. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 

A user without a Security Key created or Imported into GXW3 will not be able to edit the PLC 
Program. 

You will get this error message. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
(b) Register with CPU 
 
By writing the same Security Key to the CPU, execution (RUN) of the programs can be permitted.   
Key registration to CPU is only possible when connected to the PLC and the CPU is in STOP. 
Only one Security Key can be written to a CPU. 

Select CPU Tab, then Select Write Destination of the CPU you want to register.  Select Write Key. 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
Step 3: Write Project to SD Card Using Security Keys 
There is nothing specific to select when writing a project to a SD Card initially, if the Security Key exists, 
it will be included with the project. 

If project does not have, or has a different security key; when CPU is reset after inserting the SD card, 
the following authentication errors will occur.   This will prevent the wrong PLC Project from being 
loaded into a CPU from the SD card.    

Security Key in CPU – No Security Key in Project on CPU reset: 

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 • phone: 847.478.2100
An ISO9001 Certified Company
 
 
Security Key in Project – No Security Key in CPU on CPU reset: 

OR 

Security Keys in CPU and Project do not match: 

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