Wardkey
App-aware credential vault for Git and AWS CLI-Windows Hello
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Wardkey is an experimental Windows credential broker for Git and the AWS CLI. Instead of leaving tokens in plain files, it keeps them in an encrypted vault and releases one only if the requesting app matches your policy, optionally with a Windows Hello prompt per request. Fake “decoy” credentials trigger alerts, and every decision goes into a tamper-evident log. Open source, written in Go, early prototype: use dummy credentials. Feedback welcome.
PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: credential management and security tools · 64 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Privacy
- GitHub
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and vault plumbing are vibe-codeable, but a secure credential broker needs correct cryptography, process identity verification, and Windows credential APIs, where subtle mistakes are security vulnerabilities.
What it would actually take: Build a Windows service or tray app that encrypts the vault with DPAPI or a key in the TPM, integrates Windows Hello via WebAuthn or the Windows Hello API, and intercepts Git credential helpers and AWS CLI credential_process calls. Verifying the calling process (path, signature, parent PID) and designing the decoy-credential detection need experienced security engineers, and the result needs an independent audit before anyone trusts it with real secrets.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 185 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #105 of 186 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- Lockenv · hn · 2025-12-08 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- KeyEnv · hn · 2026-01-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- CredentialExplorer · github · 2026-10-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- git-token-auth · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- KeyEnv · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Zipperhide · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Ravenpass · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- bwssh · github · 2026-09-22 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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