OpenBotAuth
Open-Source Web Bot Auth with Social Registry
Details
- External ID
- 45994174
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenBotAuth
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
We're building an open source implementation for Web Bot Auth, which is an IETF draft for signed agent authentication over HTTP, without CDN lock-in.We've built a social registry, using Github login, where you can host your Signature Agent card/JWKS over a dedicated link. This saves you buying a domain and self-hosting your card. Please try it out : https://openbotauth.org/loginWe've also built a Wordpress plugin, which works in signed and unsigned mode. Unsigned mode gives you a preview and Signed mode gives you all access. Websites can point their origin server to our registry or use other registries to block unverified traffic.Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W5tScru5Us Docs: https://docs.openbotauth.orgThe next step is to build the delegation as discussed here: https://thibmeu.github.io/http-message-signatures-directory/...We'd love your feedback on our social registry and how we can improve it. :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- social media violation reporting automation
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source web bot authentication
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Implementing an IETF HTTP signature draft with an OAuth GitHub login flow and a public JWKS directory is a standard web application and cryptographic signature verification project.
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