Nen
End-to-end encrypted APIs for modern web.
Nen launched on June 8, 2026 with 12 votes, #1,157 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
What it does
Nen is a developer-first toolkit that encrypts your API payloads, not just the channel. While TLS protects data in transit, it leaves payloads exposed at your edge, logs, and proxies. Isogeny's SDKs keep data as ciphertext across all intermediaries, decrypting only at your true endpoints. Just drop in a few lines of code to make your APIs quantum-safe, implement field-level encryption, and automatically generate cryptographic evidence to pass your next SOC2 or HIPAA compliance audit.
TLS keeps your data safe in transit, then terminates. Nen encrypts the API payload that survives termination — your logs, databases, CDN, proxies, and third-party hops see only ciphertext. Application-layer encryption with ML-KEM-768 post-quantum key exchange. TLS + Nen.
HTTPS protects your data in transit — and does it perfectly. But the instant TLS terminates, the JSON body lies in plaintext across your logs, databases, CDN, proxies, and every third-party hop. Nen keeps it encrypted the whole way. One line of code. Same TLS you already trust. fetch("/api/claims", { method: "POST", body: { "patient_id": "ptn_8821", "ssn": "412-55-9087", "diagnosis": "Type 2 Diabetes", "balance_due": 1840.00 } }); What your CDN, logs & proxies see { "patient_id": "ptn_8821", "ssn": "412-55-9087", "diagnosis": "Type 2 Diabetes", "balance_due": 1840.00 } Plaintext visible. TLS protected it in transit, but it terminates at the edge. This payload now sits entirely readable in…from withnen.com
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