Ezkey

Open-source MFA for developers — pragmatic, self-hosted, straightforward

Cryptographic MFA with a clear chain: your backend, your devices. Simple, secure, and self-hosted Multi-Factor Authentication that just works.

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Developer First

Simple REST APIs, comprehensive docs, and backend-first integration — mobile in the chain

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Sovereign security

Cryptographic MFA on your infrastructure — your backend stays the source of truth; the app completes the chain

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Mobile Ready

Cross-platform React Native app with QR enrollment

Build status

Product updates

We’re still building. The goal is simple: make secure authentication easier for backend teams to adopt and operate — closer to integrating a well-documented API than to fighting your stack.

February 2026
Building an authentication system is challenging. Making it safe and reliable is harder. Ezkey will ship in phases; the first is due in the coming months. It will be a technology preview: it will show what the system can do, but it will not be production-ready.
March 2026
The admin UI is about 90% complete. The mobile app is being rewritten, and the crypto APIs are under review. QA is getting more thorough and surfacing many issues to fix before a release. Progress is steady, and the product is starting to take shape.

Writing

Articles & notes

Longer pieces on engineering practice and AI-assisted development — independent of the product roadmap above.

Ezkey at a glance Trust zone and mobile app: backend-first MFA, bind/verify and pending/respond, and why it is not “just another code app.” Read Testing strategy From unit tests to operational stress: tag segmentation, Docker clean room, sequential functional tests, elective spot checks, and time-compressed operational churn. Read AI coding manifesto The future of coding is already here: boundaries, Docker, tests, and how the developer role shifts. Read Generative AI and No-Code / Low-Code A parallel between the No-Code era and today’s AI coding tools — specs, lock-in, and hybrid documentation. Read From code to intent One year of AI-assisted workflow on an open source project — from raw velocity to elevating the developer role toward architect, analyst and product owner. Read