Why go through the hassle

The practical unlock: verified attestation enables secret injection. KMS patterns include:

• User-controlled KMS (phone / hardware wallet)
• Decentralized KMS (Phala KMS)
• Trustee KBS (CoCo/Kata ecosystem)
• Cloud-native options (Azure MAA + AKV, GCP Confidential Space)

Content informed by: research/ — KMS integration patterns from coco-kata-discovery and kettle-on-phala.