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AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography team for AWS and their customers. It іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project and the OpenSSL project.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2024-09-13 · latest 2026-01-28

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  1. AWS actually has two libraries they use instead: s2n and aws-lc https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls https://github.com/aws/aws-lc
    comment by sharms · 2026-01-28 · in AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release
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    AWS-LC is a general-purpose cryptographic library
    story by mooreds · 2025-08-07 · 0 comments
  3. …1. https://dpitt.me/files/sime.pdf (hosted on my domain because it's pulled from a journal) 2. https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/blob/9c8bd6d7b8adccdd8af4242e0...
    comment by pittma · 2025-05-30 · in Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512
  4. Is that right? From the AWS-LC README: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc > A portable C implementation of all algorithms is included and optimized assembly implementations of select algorithms is included for some x86 and Arm CPUs. It also…
    comment by robmor · 2025-05-17 · in Rustls Server-Side Performance
  5. They did: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc / https://github.com/google/boringssl (Not in rust, but it's mostly assembly anyways so I'm not sure rust provides much. There is https://github.com/briansmith/ring in rust, not sure if it's…
    comment by gpm · 2025-02-08 · in Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
  6. …thought about tying it to nginx to see if it will work. Turns out someone else has already tried: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc/issues/1827
    comment by newman314 · 2024-09-13 · in Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography
  7. …while retaining the general approach and vibe (lots of formal verification + performance work): https://github.com/aws/aws-lc That's pretty sweet. I'm currently using BoringSSL in a project as a supplement to OpenSSL (mostly because it is…
    comment by aseipp · 2024-09-13 · in Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography