Show HN: CipherStash Stack – Data Level Access Control in TS/JS

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Hi HN, I'm Dan Draper, founder of CipherStash.We've spent 5 years building per-value searchable encryption tech.

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We realized that encryption like this is incredibly powerful but the engineering required is generally not worth the effort.

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So we built a platform and opensource SDK to take the cry out of cryptography :)CipherStash Stack is: * A searchable encryption SDK for TS and Postgres * Fast, key management with Zerokms (backed by HSM) * A transparent SQL proxy * Auth library and OIDC federation service * Skills for data securityIntegrations include Prisma Next, Drizzle, Auth0, Clerk and Supabase.Install and setup is done via a single npx stash init command.

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And can handoff implementation to your agent.You can start by encrypting just a single field and we've got the whole process down to around 15 minutes.Oh and its fast: most queries run in a few ms with many faster than that.We published our full benchmarks here: https://github.com/cipherstash/benches#headline-numbersI'd love to...

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