We want to help customers use Google Cloud while trusting us less. This is the philosophy behind a lot of our security work, as we’ve described before. It’s part of our vision for a trusted cloud, our plan to build technologies and strategies that earn greater trust …

As we discussed in “The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less” and hinted at in “ Unlocking the mystery of stronger security key management,” there are situations where the encryption keys must be kept away from the cloud provider environment …