Secure access
that expires by design.
Ephera replaces permanent SSH keys with short-lived certificates. Your team authenticates, connects, and every session has a hard expiry. No keys to rotate, no credentials to leak, no cleanup scripts.
SSH keys that never expire are
credentials waiting to be leaked.
Most teams rely on long-lived SSH keys: authorized_keys files spread across hundreds of servers, keys that belong to people who left months ago, access no one can audit and no one remembers granting.
Ephera is the control plane for your SSH access. Authenticate once, get a certificate valid for 8 hours, connect directly to any server you have a grant for. When the certificate expires, access stops. No cleanup, no rotation scripts, no human error.
The control plane issues certificates.
It is never in the SSH data path.
An Ephera outage means no new certificates, not loss of access to servers you already have a valid cert for.
Certificates expire. Sessions are logged.
Certificates are valid for 8 hours — enough for a full day without interruption. When they expire, they're gone. No credentials to leak, rotate, or forget about.
Certificate issued. Countdown starts.
enough for your work day, then it's gone
Your fleet, at a glance.
agent reports status via heartbeat
Full audit trail. Who connected, when, from where.
Every authentication, certificate issuance, and connection is logged. Compliance reports generate automatically on paid plans.