Protect the Treasure

Nine pirates have captured a treasure chest. In order to protect it, they decide to lock it using multiple locks and distribute several keys for each of these locks among them, so that the chest can be opened only by a majority of the pirates. What is the minimum number of keys each of the pirates should get?

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