# Cross-link map: Vercel KMS Quickstart (/docs/kms/quickstart)

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## Semantically closest pages

- [Vercel KMS Authentication](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/concepts/authentication) — How Vercel KMS authorizes signing requests with a deployment OIDC token, authorizes management requests with a Vercel ac
- [Vercel KMS SDK Reference](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/ts-sdk-reference) — API reference for @vercel/kms, including signJWT, signMessage, region resolution, and signing the KMS API directly witho
- [Key Management Service \\(KMS\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/kms) — Sign JWTs and messages with Vercel-managed signing keys. Learn about issuers, keys, and policies, and how to sign from V
- [Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys](https://vercel.com/changelog/sign-jwts-from-your-functions-without-managing-private-keys)
- [Vercel KMS Concepts](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/concepts) — Understand how Vercel KMS rotates signing keys and how it authorizes signing, management, and verification.

## Prerequisites

- [Key Management](https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/vercel-mcp/tools/key-management) — Vercel MCP tools for key management.

## This page links to (5)

- [Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions) — Build API routes, webhooks, and agent request handlers with Vercel Functions, then test and debug them with Vercel CLI.
- [Vercel KMS Authentication](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/concepts/authentication) — How Vercel KMS authorizes signing requests with a deployment OIDC token, authorizes management requests with a Vercel ac
- [Vercel KMS Key Rotation](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/concepts/key-rotation) — How Vercel KMS stages a pending signing key, schedules its activation, and retires the previous key so already-issued to
- [Vercel KMS SDK Reference](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/ts-sdk-reference) — API reference for @vercel/kms, including signJWT, signMessage, region resolution, and signing the KMS API directly witho
- [OpenID Connect \\(OIDC\\) Federation](https://vercel.com/docs/oidc) — Secure the access to your backend using OIDC Federation to enable auto-generated, short-lived, and non-persistent creden

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- [Key Management Service \\(KMS\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/kms) — Sign JWTs and messages with Vercel-managed signing keys. Learn about issuers, keys, and policies, and how to sign from V
- [Vercel KMS Concepts](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/concepts) — Understand how Vercel KMS rotates signing keys and how it authorizes signing, management, and verification.
- [Vercel KMS SDK Reference](https://vercel.com/docs/kms/ts-sdk-reference) — API reference for @vercel/kms, including signJWT, signMessage, region resolution, and signing the KMS API directly witho