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## What is Polykey?
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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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**Polykey is an open-source, peer-to-peer system** that addresses the critical
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challenge in cybersecurity: **the secure sharing and delegation of authority**,
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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
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these secrets in encrypted vaults on their own devices, and share them directly
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with trusted parties.**
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-**All data is end-to-end encrypted**, both in transit and at rest, eliminating
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the risk associated with third-party storage.
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-**Polykey provides a command line interface**, desktop and mobile GUI, and a
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web-based control plane for organizational management.
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- By treating secrets as tokenized authority, it offers a fresh approach to
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**managing and delegating authority in zero-trust architectures** without
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adding burdensome policy complexity - a pervasive issue in existing zero-trust
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systems.
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- Unlike complex self-hosted secrets management systems that require specialized
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skills and infrastructure, Polykey is **installed and running directly from
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the end-user device**.
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- It is built to **automatically navigate network complexities** like NAT
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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 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.
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-**Decentralized Encrypted Storage** - No storage of secrets on third parties,
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secrets are stored on your device and synchronised point-to-point between
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Polykey nodes.
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-**Secure Peer-to-Peer Communication** - Polykey bootstraps TLS keys by
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federating trusted social identities (e.g. GitHub).
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