throwaway1619

Can you elaborate a bit on the recommendation of KMS (Amazon or Google's key management service)? It seems to me that bringing in a new external service as a dependency, and trusting that external dependency with your encryption keys, adds a risk that isn't necessary or present with NaCL or other well-reviewed cryptography libraries. How can you independently audit the correctness of KMS? What if Google or Amazon becomes evil, or incompetent, or are put under nation-state pressure, etc?