Programmable forgetting
TTL-enforced Kademlia routing, Shamir-sharded decryption keys, and deterministic cleanup hooks guarantee that expired data evaporates everywhere.
Deploy in seconds
Ship the relay and daemon to a hostile network with two commands. The installer fingerprints the platform, fetches the latest signed build, and wires systemd or the Windows Service Manager automatically.
Unix-like
curl -sSf https://eph.shardian.com/install.sh | sh
Windows
irm https://eph.shardian.com/install.ps1 | iex
Operational topology
EphemeralNet pairs a TTL-native DHT with an event-driven relay service, ensuring manifests, chunks, and encryption material share the same expiration semantics everywhere in the mesh.
Reasons infra teams adopt EphemeralNet
Hostile NAT traversal
Inline STUN/TURN learning backed by a purpose-built relay kernel so CGNATs, firewalls, and air-gapped segments are no longer blockers.
Relay-grade event loop
epoll/kqueue-driven IO core that saturates 10G links with tens of thousands of peers while maintaining microsecond-level latency budgets.
ChaCha20-Poly1305 everywhere
Zero-Trust transport envelopes, rolling key derivation per peer, and HMAC integrity gates ensure cryptographic hygiene by default.
SRE-grade observability
Prometheus exporters for TTL drift, DHT health, relay pressure, and per-peer QoS so production ops can reason about temporal correctness.
CLI + daemon parity
Single `eph` binary exposes the daemon and a remote-friendly CLI surface to script deployments or drop into incidents instantly.