multiaes
hardware-accelerated, constant-time AES, two-file drop-in
Details
- External ID
- 49070811
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- multiaes
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5764635603345281
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hardware-accelerated aes encryption library
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing constant-time, hardware-accelerated AES cryptography from scratch requires specialized cryptographic engineering to prevent side-channel attacks and leverage specific CPU vector/crypto instructions (AES-NI, ARMv8 Crypto).
What it would actually take: Requires writing C/C++ and raw assembly targeting CPU-specific vector extensions (x86 AES-NI / AVX and ARM NEON / Crypto extensions) while strictly adhering to constant-time execution invariants to prevent cache-timing and branch side-channel attacks. The code must be formally verified or heavily fuzzed against NIST CAVP test vectors and side-channel analysis tools (like dudect). This demands expert-level cryptographic systems engineers.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenSSL
Concerns raised: Performance significantly slower than OpenSSL (~252 MB/s vs ~579 MB/s)
Feature requests: Add benchmark targets/suite
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1131 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #485 of 1132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 269 days after the earliest competitor.
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- teatime-os · github · 2026-09-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TidesDB · hn · 2025-11-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- OJ · hn · 2026-09-17 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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