Today AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is introducing new APIs to generate and verify hash-based message authentication codes (HMACs) using the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated hardware security modules (HSMs) in AWS KMS. HMACs are a powerful cryptographic building block that incorporate secret key material in …

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) makes it easy to create and manage cryptographic keys in your applications. The service supports both symmetric and asymmetric customer master keys (CMKs). The asymmetric CMKs offer digital signature capability, which data consumers can use to verify that data is from a trusted …