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---
title: "Key Management Service (KMS)"
sidebarTitle: "Overview"
description: "Learn how to configure your project's encryption"
---
## Introduction
Infisical leverages a Key Management Service (KMS) to securely encrypt and decrypt secrets in your projects.
## Overview
Infisical's KMS ensures the security of your project's secrets through the following mechanisms:
- Each project is assigned a unique workspace key, which is responsible for encrypting and decrypting secret values.
- The workspace key itself is encrypted using the project's configured KMS.
- When secrets are requested, the workspace key is derived from the configured KMS. This key is then used to decrypt the secret values on-demand before sending them to the requesting client.
## Configuration
You can set the KMS for new projects during project creation.
![Configure KMS new](../../../images/platform/kms/configure-kms-new.png)
For existing projects, you can configure the KMS from the Project Settings page.
![Configure KMS existing](../../../images/platform/kms/configure-kms-existing.png)
## External KMS
Infisical supports the use of external KMS solutions to enhance security and compliance. You can configure your project to use services like [AWS Key Management Service](./aws-kms) for managing encryption.