Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty
Hey HN! After 6 years of R&D, our small team is excited to share our project TideCloak - an IAM designed to help developers move fast without worrying about catastrophic breaches or overpowered admins with keys to the kingdom. Traditional IAMs rely on centralized authority - admins, root certificates, and decryption keys - which create glaring vulnerabilities in a breach. To address this, we’ve integrated Keycloak (Red Hat’s IAM) with a decentralized key architecture powered by our (academically validated) Ineffable Cryptography. Here’s the idea: keys are split across a decentralized network…
TideCloak is an identity and access management system built on Keycloak that distributes cryptographic keys across a decentralized network rather than centralizing them. It is designed for developers who want to reduce… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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keychains.dev▲177Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…
Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →
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Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await
2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →
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We built OneCLI because AI agents are being given raw API keys. And it's going about as well as you'd expect. We figured the answer isn't "don't give agents access," it's "give them access without giving them secrets." OneCLI is an open-source gateway that sits between your AI agents and the services they call. You store your real credentials once in OneCLI's encrypted vault, and give your agents placeholder keys. When an agent makes an HTTP call through the proxy, OneCLI matches the request by host/path, verifies the agent should have access, swaps the placeholder for the real…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One identity layer for your customers, APIs, and agents
Jul 2026 · monocloud.com · its alternatives →
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SecureAF▲7Don't get your knickers in a knot. We were surprised too. We are the team behind TideCloak which we shared on HN previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460131). This time we ran an experiment. What happens when you apply a fundamentally different security model to the worst possible development process? Behold... SecureAF https://secureaf.lovable.app/ Build video 6 mins https://youtu.be/tx5MsJ3jeQw The code and UI are questionable and the quality assurance is non-existent. But the security model holds by treating even us as malicious,…
2025 · secureaf.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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KEYCLOAK▲5Open Source Identity and Access Management - Login
2020 · keycloak.org · its alternatives →
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MetaMask Mobile▲213Connecting you to the decentralized web from your phone
2019 · metamask.io · its alternatives →
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A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. - ory/ladon
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cloud native Identity & Access Proxy / API (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authenticates, authorizes, and mutates incoming HTTP(s) requests. Inspired by the BeyondCorp / Zero Trust white paper. Written in Go. - ory/oathkeeper
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE. As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort. So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource…
2022 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we build an open-source operating system extension for orchestrating robot swarms fully decentralized. This first beta version allows you to create fully decentralized robot swarms. The system will set up a wireless mesh network and run a p2p networking stack on top of it, such that nodes can interact with each other through various abstractions using our SDKs (Rust, Python, TypeScript) or a CLI. We hope this is a step toward better inter-robot communication (and a fun project if you have a few Raspberry Pis lying around). Our mesh network is created by B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv and we’ve…
2025 · docs.p2p.industries · its alternatives →
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Auth testing reimagined. One-click. Zero setup.
2025 · its alternatives →
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I've built this to make it easy to host your own infra for lightweight VMs at large scale. Intended for exec of AI-generated code, for CICD runners, or for off-chain AI DApps. Mainly to avoid Docker-in-Docker dangers and mess. Super easy to use with CLI / Python SDK, friendly to AI engs who usually don't like to mess with VM orchestration and networking too much. Defense-in-depth philosophy. Would love to get feedback (and contributors: clear & exciting roadmap!), thx
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Latchkey▲122Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets
2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
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I built this after seeing multiple teams accidentally ship API keys in their frontend code. The problem: Modern web development moves fast. You're vibe-coding, shipping features, and suddenly your AWS keys are sitting in a tag visible to anyone who opens DevTools. I've personally witnessed this happen to at least 3-4 production apps in the past year alone. KeyLeak Detector runs through your site (headless browser + network interception) and checks for 50+ types of leaked secrets: AWS/Google keys, Stripe tokens, database connection strings, LLM API keys (OpenAI, Claude, etc.), JWT…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Axios / LiteLLM hacks behavioral detector app for Mac/PC
Apr 2026 · edamame.tech · its alternatives →
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The turn key OpenClaw solution with unlimited LLM tokens
Mar 2026 · open.claw.cloud · its alternatives →
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Keycloak Hosting | Support | Migration | Customization
2024 · phasetwo.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Dan Draper, founder of CipherStash. We've spent 5 years building per-value searchable encryption tech. We realized that encryption like this is incredibly powerful but the engineering required is generally not worth the effort. So we built a platform and opensource SDK to take the cry out of cryptography :) CipherStash Stack is: * A searchable encryption SDK for TS and Postgres * Fast, key management with Zerokms (backed by HSM) * A transparent SQL proxy * Auth library and OIDC federation service * Skills for data security Integrations include Prisma Next, Drizzle, Auth0, Clerk…
May 2026 · cipherstash.com · its alternatives →
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Neptune is a quantum-safe layer 1 blockchain combining zk-STARKs and PoW consensus. Private by default, programmable, and built for global scale
2014 · neptune.io · its alternatives →
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