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aes

Mathematical AES: The slowest (but constant-time) AES implementation you can find. Here, SBOX takes 80 nanoseconds.

Details

External ID
1366946602
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
aes
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 12, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
14
Upvotes percentile
0.4606712785037151
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
scientific computing and deep tech tools
Vertical
Security
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
constant-time mathematical aes implementation for developers
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Writing a mathematically constant-time cryptographic implementation of AES requiring 80ns S-box computations without data-dependent branching or memory lookup tables demands deep cryptographic engineering expertise and assembly/low-level hardware verification.

What it would actually take: A real implementation requires Galois field GF(2^8) arithmetic via bit-slicing or tower-field decomposition (such as Canright's algorithm) implemented in C, Rust, or assembly. The core challenge is guaranteeing constant-time execution across hardware architectures to eliminate cache-timing and microarchitectural side-channels, requiring formal verification with tools like dudect or valgrind-based taint analysis. This necessitates a senior cryptographic engineer with microarchitectural and timing-attack expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 9 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #5 of 10 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.

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