Secure Your Microservices: Meet Halimun, the High-Performance Encrypted Proxy

Meet Halimun Proxy a high-performance, ultra-low latency proxy tunnel system built from the ground up in Rust. Why Rust? By leveraging Rust , Halimun achieves extreme efficiency. Using the Axum web framework and Tokio for non-blocking asynchronous I/O, it manages to maintain a tiny footprint—running on as little as ~15MB of RAM . It’s designed to be fast, memory-safe, and incredibly stable under load. Core Security Features Halimun isn't just a proxy; it’s a security layer. It enforces strict request validation to ensure your internal services are never exposed to malicious actors: AES-256-CBC Encryption: End-to-end payload masking. Even if your traffic is intercepted, the actual API endpoint and data remain indecipherable. HMAC-SHA256 Integrity: Validates that data hasn't been tampered with in transit. Replay Attack Prevention: Uses Nonce and timestamp verification in-memory (via DashMap ) to reject duplicate spoofed requests. SSRF Protection: Built-in mechanisms to prevent attackers from targeting your internal network infrastructure (e.g., 127.0.0.1 ). Camouflage Routing: It hides your actual API structure behind random, dummy URL segments, making traffic profiling by WAFs or human analysts nearly impossible. Quick Start (Docker) Halimun is "Docker-ready," making it easy to drop into any existing infrastructure. 1. Configuration First, generate your encryption keys using the built-in generator: # Generate keys and save to .env docker build -t halimun-proxy . docker run --rm halimun-proxy ./halimun-proxy --keygen --format = env > .env 2. Deployment Configure your config.yaml to map your backend services, then launch your cluster: docker-compose up -d Your production proxy is now live, listening securely on port 80 while your backend services remain completely secluded within a private Docker network. Under the Hood: Request Lifecycle Halimun uses an encrypted tunnel approach. A typical request follows this structure: POST /proxy/1/SEGMENT1/SEGMENT2/SEGMENT3/SEGMEN