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Ephemeral SSH

Short-lived SSH certificates, issued when you need access

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Request a short-lived OpenSSH user certificate using your own public key, then connect directly to your server with your private key. Configure your server to trust the CA once, without distributing individual user keys. Certificates are capped at 15 minutes. One launch caveat: the issuer currently lacks requester authentication and authorization. Video: https://youtu.be/WeXxz9asOXs?si=9M3qTyLHQHBKnwLS Product to Try: https://proto-ephemeral-ssh.onrender.com/

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: credential management and security tools · 78 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▲ +56% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • SaaS
  • Security

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic CA that signs user keys via ssh-keygen and a short-lived certificate flow is buildable with vibe coding. Hardening the signing service, key storage, and authentication for production use requires security expertise that a vibe-coded prototype won't reliably have.

What it would actually take: The core is an HTTP service that authenticates users (for example via OIDC) and signs their submitted public keys with a CA key stored in an HSM or KMS, returning a certificate with a 15-minute validity. The hard part is making the CA and auth flow secure against misuse, including revocation, audit logs, and key-handling practices. A security engineer should review it before anyone relies on it.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 258 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #128 of 259 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 377 days after the earliest competitor.

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