Go · Apache-2.0
smallstep/certificates
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
★ 9k
Stars
616 forks · 309 open issues
+2.6/day
Growth · measured
Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.
36.9
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
8y ago
Created
last push 4d ago
Star history
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 10.6 | +2.6/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 0.0 | last week ran 0.72× the monthly pace |
| Freshness | 15 | 14.8 | last push 4d ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 11.5 | 9k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 36.9 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | acmeacme-servercacertificate-authoritycertificatesgopkisecuritysecurity-toolssshtlsx509 |
| Matched on | Security (security-tools) |
| Short window | +18 stars over 7 days = 2.6/day |
| Long window | +93 stars over 26 days = 3.6/day |
| Lifetime average | 3.09 stars/day over 2,926 days |
| First seen here | 2026-10-11 |
| Last read | 2d ago |