# arkenforge/arken-core

> Passwordless authentication middleware for Express and FastAPI based on DID signatures: the client signs a one-time nonce with a secp256k1 key, and the server verifies it without passwords, sessions, or a user database.

- Magnitude: 0.6 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 11 total · +0 stars measured 2026-11-01, 00:02–00:45 UTC, ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-10-29 · Last push: 2026-10-31
- GitHub: https://github.com/arkenforge/arken-core · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/arkenforge/arken-core

## Useful for

- Protect an Express or FastAPI route without passwords or sessions
- Set up server-to-server auth via did:key without account registration

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-01 (UTC), 00:02–00:45: 11 → 11 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 3 days old and already has 11 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys” — 12 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 4 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-29 … 2026-11-01: 5, 6, None, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

10-30 1.8, 10-31 1.8, 11-01 0.6

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Arken – Passwordless auth middleware using secp256k1 keys — 12 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298738

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-01 00:55 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.