# Cosmos transaction signing support for Tendermint KMS proposal

**URL:** https://forum.cosmos.network/t/cosmos-transaction-signing-support-for-tendermint-kms-proposal/3099
**Category:** Ecosystem
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/cosmos-transaction-signing-support-for-tendermint-kms-proposal/3099 "2019-12-30T21:12:05Z")
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### Author: ![iqlusion](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/iqlusion/32/294_2.png) [@iqlusion](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/iqlusion)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/cosmos-transaction-signing-support-for-tendermint-kms-proposal/3099/1 "2019-12-30T21:12:05Z")

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We’ve published a proposal for using Tendermint KMS in conjunction with account keys for the purposes of transaction signing using KMS (+ HSM)-backed keys.

The intended use cases are price oracles or backup multisig keys for e.g. governance voting.

You can view it here:

> <https://github.com/tendermint/kms/issues/386>
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> Presently Tendermint KMS only supports signing consensus proposals/votes. That said, the prerequisites are all in place, both in the tendermint crate...