Lantern DSSE
Open-source network security, under your control
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Lantern DSSE is a self-hosted Secure Service Edge combining ZTNA, TLS inspection, DLP, DNS control and SaaS tenant restrictions. Keep traffic inspection in your own infrastructure, with code you can inspect. Apache-2.0, with signed macOS and Windows packages. Experimental release for lab evaluation.
PH · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: security screening and access governance software · 54 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Security
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Could you build this?
No An enterprise Secure Service Edge requires low-level network packet manipulation, custom TLS forward-proxy decryption, signed kernel/system drivers, and zero-trust protocol enforcement.
What it would actually take: A real ZTNA/SSE suite requires developing native system extensions (NetworkExtension on macOS, WFP callout drivers on Windows, eBPF/tproxy on Linux) to intercept all host traffic transparently. It requires an in-line TLS proxy with dynamic CA root generation for MITM decryption, real-time SNI/DNS filtering engines, and wire-speed packet inspection written in C, C++, or Rust. The core difficulties are signed kernel/system driver verification, cross-platform low-level network stack stability, and securing high-throughput decrypted data paths without crashing user machines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 233 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blue Lantern Security · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- wireztna-oss · github · 2026-10-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SunuCyberSecurity · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- DSGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- GlowHalo Utility APIs · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- DataDack Cloud · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- DSCI · hn · 2026-02-15 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- CDNShark · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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