Key management

Disclosed is a mechanism, method and apparatus for providing cryptographic key management. In one example, a cryptographic key management system (100') includes a plurality of processing mechanisms (140) for receiving data to be signed according one or more signing cryptographic keys. Each processing mechanism (140) is coupled to one or more respective cryptographic key modules, such as a hardware security module (146) configured to store the cryptographic key(s). A network configuration database (144) is accessible by each processing mechanism (140) and stores information identifying the cryptographic key(s) stored in the cryptographic key modules (146).