SciPHR started entirely on an on-premise infrastructure

SciPHR started entirely on an on-premise infrastructure. It worked for early testing, we could encrypt wallet seeds, handle signing operations, and validate the cryptographic model. Scaling, however, meant moving beyond hardware constraints and manual orchestration.

We're grateful that Google Cloud for Startups gave us the credits and runway to migrate to cloud infrastructure. We moved signing operations from Mac Secure Enclave to Google Cloud Secret Manager. Secure Enclave provided strong cryptographic isolation, but distributing that security model requires enterprise HSM infrastructure.

Both approaches solve the same problem: Run a distributed key management system.