Hello Django community
Over the last few months I’ve been building a project called CipherToken, a Rust-powered authentication and cryptography library for Python built with PyO3.
GitHub:
Documentation:
CipherToken provides both async and sync APIs and is designed for modern Python applications that need authentication, token management, and cryptographic operations.
Some current features:
* Native async APIs
* Traditional sync APIs
* JWT generation and validation
* HMAC and RSA support
* Rust-powered implementation
* Python-friendly API
Now I’d like to take the next step and build a dedicated Django integration:
CipherToken-Django
Repository:
The project is still in its early stages, and I’m looking for people who would like to help build it from the ground up.
Rather than developing the entire package alone, I’d like to collaborate with other Django developers to design the architecture, discuss authentication workflows, and create a modern authentication solution for Django and Django REST Framework based on CipherToken.
Some ideas and goals include:
* Django authentication backends
* Django REST Framework integration
* Access and refresh token workflows
* Middleware support
* Async-first design
* Full compatibility with traditional sync Django projects
* ASGI-ready architecture
* Clean and developer-friendly APIs
If you have experience with Django, DRF, authentication systems, async Django, security, or even Rust/Python interoperability, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
At this stage I’m primarily looking for:
* Contributors
* Architecture feedback
* API design discussions
* Authentication and security expertise
* People interested in helping shape the project from the beginning
If building a modern async-friendly authentication package for Django sounds interesting to you, feel free to join the discussion or contribute to the repository.
Any feedback or collaboration would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!