# Why do we have multiple sets of public and private keys in Flow?

**URL:** <https://forum.flow.com/t/why-do-we-have-multiple-sets-of-public-and-private-keys-in-flow/2088>\
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**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/why-do-we-have-multiple-sets-of-public-and-private-keys-in-flow/2088 "2021-06-17T11:55:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kartik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Kartik](https://forum.flow.com/u/Kartik)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/why-do-we-have-multiple-sets-of-public-and-private-keys-in-flow/2088/1 "2021-06-17T11:55:35Z")

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Hello everyone, I’m new to Flow and I am really curious to know about the concept of keeping multiple set of keys in Flow. Why do we have multiple sets of public and private keys in Flow ?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![flowjosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.flow.com/flowjosh/32/362_2.png) [@flowjosh](https://forum.flow.com/u/flowjosh)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.flow.com/t/why-do-we-have-multiple-sets-of-public-and-private-keys-in-flow/2088/2 "2021-06-18T15:19:30Z")

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Your question is a little bit unclear to me, but I think you are asking why Flow allows users to add multiple public/private key pairs to a single account. We did that because there are many different use cases for multisig accounts. Users can have a built it way of managing an account with multiple different owners which custom key weights, or a user could potentially put multiple keys on an account so that if they lose of them, they still have a back up key.