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Zen-Hunt – A bare-metal forensic scanner in Rust (SIMD, 7GB/s on NVMe)
Forensic scanner claiming 7GB/s NVMe speeds that admits it hasn't been tested on NVMe yet.
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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 – Forensic Scanner in Rust (SIMD, 7GB/S on NVMe)
by ejgi·Mar 24, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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7GB/s forensic scanning with SIMD and async prefetch beats grep by 10x.
Strengths
- •AVX-512/NEON SIMD compares 512 bits simultaneously for pattern matching.
- •Async double-buffer I/O prefetches 64MB chunks while processing.
- •Maps hits to physical offsets and source-file metadata in real-time.
Weaknesses
- •Forensic scanning tools (bulk_extractor, strings) already exist.
- •CUDA GPU matching mentioned but not implemented yet.
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Target Audience
Incident responders, forensic analysts
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bulk_extractor · ripgrep · strings
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