Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to zCloak
Prove who you are, without telling who you are
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. zCloak launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We (myself, Adhyyan1252 and yush_g) are undergrad students that hacked out this side project last month during Hack Lodge[1] (the ideas and many of the underlying circuits for which came from the 0xPARC community[2])! We’re extremely excited to share this new primitive. Besides the technical challenges building this project that folks here would find interesting (fixing the ZK proof compiler, modifying nodeJS V8 params etc.), we think this is a very novel use case for ZK tech, and ECDSA inside ZK-SNARKs is a starting point that unlocks many other ideas! :D A summarized version of our…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use cases for zero-knowledge proofs, and encrypted messaging
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroKit▲293Breach-proof user auth & end-to-end encryption SDK in one
2017 · tresorit.com · its alternatives →
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(More info posted in a comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651107)
2022 · ethicalads.io · 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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The simplest pro-code developer platform
2021 · catalyst.zoho.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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ZeroDB▲119An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol
2015 · zerodb.io · its alternatives →
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Convert your website visitors into happy paying customers
2016 · zoho.com · its alternatives →
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KEYCLOAK▲5Open Source Identity and Access Management - Login
2020 · keycloak.org · its alternatives →
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zkAster▲11Privacy‑First DEX for Private, Seamless Exchange
2025 · app.zkaster.com · its alternatives →
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External collaboration for businesses in Zoho Cliq
2022 · zoho.com · its alternatives →
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Monetize your private data with each ZK attestation.
2024 · portal.zkpass.org · its alternatives →
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AlleoChain▲66Platform to launch and scale blockchain applications
2020 · alleochain.io · its alternatives →
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