Arken
Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys
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HN · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 40%)
- Security
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes Passwordless auth based on secp256k1 signatures is a challenge-response flow: issue a nonce, verify the signature, and manage sessions. Mature crypto libraries handle the primitives, so a builder can wrap them in middleware.
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Attention rank: #278 of 757 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- Privacy focused client side password generator · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 · hn · 2026-05-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Selvum · hn · 2026-08-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PasswordSafeCore · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- AuthPlane · hn · 2026-06-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- password-security-lab · github · 2026-10-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- LogonStealer · github · 2026-10-12 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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