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That's a really bad idea. The general rule is that a symmetric key can either be used for key wrapping or for data encryption, but never for both.
I assume that the keys already in the devices are currently used for processing data. If such keys are now also used for key wrapping, an attacker may abuse the existing protocols and processing facilities and ...
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