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Polykey is an open-source decentralized secrets management and sharing system. It is made for today's decentralized world of people, services and devices.
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Polykey is an open-source, peer-to-peer system that addresses the critical challenge in cybersecurity: the secure sharing and delegation of authority, in the form of secrets like keys, tokens, certificates, and passwords.
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It allows users including developers, organizations, and machines—to store these secrets in encrypted vaults on their own devices, and share them directly with trusted parties.
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All data is end-to-end encrypted, both in transit and at rest, eliminating the risk associated with third-party storage.
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Polykey provides a command line interface, desktop and mobile GUI, and a web-based control plane for organizational management.
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By treating secrets as tokenized authority, it offers a fresh approach to managing and delegating authority in zero-trust architectures without adding burdensome policy complexity - a pervasive issue in existing zero-trust systems.
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Unlike complex self-hosted secrets management systems that require specialized skills and infrastructure, Polykey is installed and running directly from the end-user device.
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It is built to automatically navigate network complexities like NAT traversal, connecting securely to other nodes without manual configuration.
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Key features:
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* Decentralized Encrypted Storage - No storage of secrets on third parties, secrets are stored on your device and synchronised point-to-point between Polykey nodes.
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* Secure Peer-to-Peer Communications - Polykey bootstraps TLS keys by federating trusted social identities (e.g. GitHub).
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* Secure Computational Workflows - Share secrets (passwords, keys, tokens and certificates) with people, between teams, and across machine infrastructure.
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* Secure Peer-to-Peer Communication - Polykey bootstraps TLS keys by federating trusted social identities (e.g. GitHub).
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* Secure Computational Workflows - Share static secrets (passwords, keys, tokens and certificates) with people, between teams, and across machine infrastructure. Create dynamic (short-lived) smart-tokens with embedded policy for more sophisticated zero-trust authority verification.
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* With Polykey Enterprise, you can create private networks of Polykey nodes and apply mandatory policy governing node behaviour.
Polykey synthesizes a unified workflow between interactive password management and infrastructure key management.
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You have complete end-to-end control and privacy over your secrets, with no third-party data collection.
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Polykey runs on distributed keynodes referred to as "nodes". Any computing system can run multiple keynodes. Each node manages one or more vaults which are encrypted filesystems with automatic version history. Vaults can be shared between the nodes.
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This repository is the core library for Polykey.
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This repository is the CLI for Polykey.
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The Polykey project is split up into these main repositories:
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