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Life & fun · March 14, 2025

Protect.js: Super fast, dev-friendly encryption-in-use for Node apps

Discover Protect.js, the revolutionary tool that simplifies secure, data-driven application development using state-of-the-art encryption and ZeroKMS. Protect sensitive data in just 15 minutes.

Protect.js: Super fast, dev-friendly encryption-in-use for Node apps launched on March 14, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

Protecting data that’s sensitive (such as personal health or financial information) is crucial to building applications that users trust. But getting access control right is a tricky business. Complex requirements and a plethora of tools, as well as performance considerations, can kill dev team productivity. Stack supersedes Protect.js — same project, renamed and expanded. For new projects, read the current product announcement instead: Introducing @cipherstash/stack . This post stays up for reference. Protect turns data access control on its head by protecting data directly. Unlike complex, application-specific frameworks or hand-rolled tools, Protect.js makes building secure, data-driven…from cipherstash.com

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