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Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers

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This is an educational reference implementation showing how to build reasonably secure, standards-compliant authentication from first principles on Cloudflare Workers.Stack: Hono, Turso (libSQL), PBKDF2-SHA384 + normalization + common-password checks, JWT access + refresh tokens with revocation support, HTTP-only SameSite cookies, device tracking.It's deliberately minimal — no OAuth, no passkeys, no magic links, no rate limiting — because the goal is clarity and auditability.I wrote it mainly to deeply understand edge-runtime auth constraints and to have a clean Apache-2.0 example that follows NIST SP 800-63B / SP 800-132 and OWASP guidance.For production I'd almost always reach for Better Auth instead (https://www.better-auth.com) — this repo is not trying to compete with it.Live demo: https://private-landing.vhsdev.workers.dev/Repo: https://github.com/vhscom/private-landingHappy to answer questions about the crypto choices, the refresh token revocation pattern, Turso schema, constant-time comparison, unicode pitfalls, etc.

HN · launched Feb 9, 2026 · 33 upvotes (top 24%) · 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
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a reference implementation of user authentication using standard WebCrypto APIs (PBKDF2), Hono, and SQLite/libSQL on Cloudflare Workers. An AI assistant can generate this exact standards-based authentication boilerplate in a few prompts.

Discussion

10 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Production-grade auth frameworks, Cloudflare Durable Objects

Concerns raised: Missing NIST SP 800-63B compliance requirements, Timing attack vulnerability in database select before password validation, No enforced min/max length on stored secrets and account identifiers, Missing email normalization, AI-generated code with potential validity issues

Feature requests: DNS/MX validation for email addresses, Constant-time password comparison, Unicode normalization (NFC/NFKC) before hashing, Rate limiting via distributed locks for multi-request mitigation, Random delay on failed login attempts to prevent timing attacks

Competitors

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Attention rank: #40 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 103 days after the earliest competitor.

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