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🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

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Owner: Smallstep organisation
Stars: 8.9k
Forks: 600
Latest: v0.30.2
Last push: 2026-10-05
Terms: Open source
Self-hosted: Yes
Created: 2018, 7 years ago
Release cadence: about 2 days between releases
Active contributors: 6 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Platforms: Linux (x86_64, arm64, x86, armv7, arm), macOS (x86_64, arm64), Windows (x86_64), FreeBSD (x86_64)

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