# Performing Cryptographic Operations on Sensitive Data

Enterprise security teams and third-party APIs commonly require signing, hashing, and encryption processes when sharing sensitive data. To support these requirements, VGS allows customers to write their own Python-based operations to perform complex operations on data in transit using the [VGS Compute](/vault/developer-tools/larky.md).


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