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Zen-Hunt: A minimalist, bare-metal forensic scanner in Rust. High-performance bit-stream pattern matching using SIMD and async Double-Buffer I/O. 7GB/s on NVMe. Optimized for PCAP, EVTX, and large memory dumps.

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Zen-Hunt – A bare-metal forensic scanner in Rust (SIMD, 7GB/s on NVMe)

by ejgi·Mar 21, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

Forensic scanner claiming 7GB/s NVMe speeds that admits it hasn't been tested on NVMe yet.

Strengths
  • •SIMD optimization for raw throughput on large datasets
  • •Native PCAP and EVTX parsing without external dependencies
  • •Read-only design with explicit hardware safety warnings
Weaknesses
  • •Title claims NVMe benchmarks but README says untested on SSD/NVMe
  • •Crowded category with Autopsy, Volatility, and FTK already established
Category
Security
Target Audience

Digital forensics investigators, security researchers

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