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Exposes cachekit-core's AES hardware-detection probe through both Rust bindings and the TypeScript encryption manager. The probe already ran on every binding load but had no accessor, leaving the result unreachable from the SDK.

Public API changes

TenantKeys.hardwareAccelerationEnabled(): boolean — added to both bindings:

  • NAPI (packages/cachekit-core-ts): forwards ZeroKnowledgeEncryptor::hardware_acceleration_enabled(); index.d.ts regenerated.
  • wasm (packages/cachekit-core-wasm): same forward via #[wasm_bindgen(js_name = …)], returning false on wasm32 since the target has no AES instructions. Hand-maintained index.d.ts updated to keep the two handle shapes aligned.

EncryptionManagerCore.isHardwareAccelerated(): Promise<boolean | null> — awaits ensureInitialized() so it resolves before the first encrypt, and returns null when the accessor is absent.

EncryptionTenantKeys.hardwareAccelerationEnabled?() — declared optional on the binding interface, mirroring the existing keyringEntryCount treatment. This is what makes version skew representable: an installed binary predating the accessor yields null (unknown) instead of a misleading false.

Disposal-race handling

isHardwareAccelerated() performs an explicit disposed/tenantKeys check after the await rather than relying on a non-null assertion. Because ensureInitialized() short-circuits on an already-initialised manager, dispose() can land while the call is suspended; unlike encrypt()/decrypt(), this path has no catch block to convert the resulting null read. The check ensures an EncryptionError surfaces rather than a TypeError.

Documentation

README gains an Observability paragraph framing the flag as diagnostic only — the crypto backend dispatches independently, so it explains .secure latency rather than controlling it. Per-architecture semantics are documented as core's behaviour, including the aarch64 caveat (as of cachekit-core 0.6 the flag is unconditionally true there because core probes NEON, not the Crypto Extension).

Test coverage

  • Mocked bindings: verifies the value is available pre-encrypt with exactly one key derivation; null for a handle lacking the accessor; EncryptionError on the dispose race.
  • Real NAPI integration: accessor returns a boolean.
  • workerd with real wasm: accessor returns false, asserted as strictly false rather than falsy to catch an undefined regression.

Scope

No changes to crypto dispatch, AAD construction, key derivation, or the wire format.


Summary

Updates the encryption documentation example in packages/cachekit/README.md demonstrating EncryptionManager.isHardwareAccelerated().

Changes

  • The sample snippet now wraps the isHardwareAccelerated() call in a try/finally block, with manager.dispose() moved into the finally clause.

Impact

Documentation-only change. The revised example ensures readers follow a resource-safe pattern in which the EncryptionManager is disposed even if the hardware-acceleration probe throws. No public API surface or runtime behavior is modified by this diff.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an API to check whether AES hardware acceleration is detected. The encryption manager returns null if the installed binding does not support this check.
    • Documented the check’s platform-specific results and clarified that it is informational only.

Both bindings run the same cachekit-core AES probe that cachekit-py
surfaces as hardware_acceleration_enabled, but neither exposed it, so the
answer to "is AES hardware-accelerated here?" was unreachable from
TypeScript.

TenantKeys.hardwareAccelerationEnabled() on the NAPI and wasm bindings
delegates to core; EncryptionManagerCore.isHardwareAccelerated() surfaces
it, initialising on demand so it answers at startup, and returns null
(unknown) rather than false when an older binding predates the accessor.
On wasm32 it is honestly false — no AES instructions to detect.
Informational only — crypto dispatch is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Native and wasm TenantKeys bindings now report detected AES hardware support. EncryptionManagerCore.isHardwareAccelerated() exposes the status, returns null when the binding lacks the accessor, and rejects reads after disposal. Tests and README documentation cover the API.

Hardware acceleration reporting

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Binding support
packages/cachekit-core-ts/src/lib.rs, packages/cachekit-core-ts/index.d.ts, packages/cachekit-core-wasm/src/lib.rs, packages/cachekit-core-wasm/index.d.ts
Native and wasm TenantKeys bindings expose hardwareAccelerationEnabled(). The wasm implementation reports false.
Encryption manager API
packages/cachekit/src/encryption/manager-core.ts
EncryptionManagerCore.isHardwareAccelerated() initialises bindings on demand and returns a detected boolean or null when the accessor is unavailable.
Validation and documentation
packages/cachekit/src/encryption/manager-core.test.ts, packages/cachekit/test/integration/encryption-real-crypto.integration.test.ts, packages/cachekit/test/workers/encryption.protocol.workers.test.ts, packages/cachekit/README.md
Tests cover initialisation, disposal, older bindings, and native and wasm results. The README documents the API, reported results, and usage.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant EncryptionManagerCore
  participant EncryptionTenantKeys
  Caller->>EncryptionManagerCore: call isHardwareAccelerated()
  EncryptionManagerCore->>EncryptionManagerCore: initialise bindings if needed
  EncryptionManagerCore->>EncryptionTenantKeys: call hardwareAccelerationEnabled()
  EncryptionTenantKeys-->>EncryptionManagerCore: return boolean or unavailable
  EncryptionManagerCore-->>Caller: return boolean or null
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Comment thread packages/cachekit/src/encryption/manager-core.ts Outdated
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Review found the same per-architecture narrative restated across the
bindings, the manager, and the README, and it mis-described aarch64: core
tests NEON there, which every aarch64 target enables, so the flag is true
on every aarch64 build regardless of the Crypto Extension. Binding and
JSDoc comments now state only what the SDK owns — forwards core,
informational, null means the binding predates the accessor — and the
README carries one dated per-architecture line with the honest aarch64
caveat. The mock test drops two assertions already covered by the
ensureInitialized() suite.
…dwareAccelerated

isHardwareAccelerated() documents @throws EncryptionError when the manager
is disposed, but read tenantKeys through a non-null assertion. On an
already-initialised manager ensureInitialized() returns early, so a
dispose() landing while the call is suspended at the await left the
continuation reading a null tenantKeys and throwing TypeError instead.

encrypt() and decrypt() convert the same null read inside their catch;
this path has none, so it now checks explicitly. Adds a regression test
that disposes an initialised manager mid-call and asserts EncryptionError
(it fails with TypeError without the guard).

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Comment thread packages/cachekit/README.md Outdated
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The README said `null` is returned only when "the installed native binding"
predates the accessor, but `hardwareAccelerationEnabled?.() ?? null` in
manager-core.ts is binding-agnostic: an older wasm binding hits the same
path. The accessor's own JSDoc already says "installed binding"; this aligns
the README with both the implementation and that doc comment.
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…of NEON (LAB-4650) (#77)

## Problem

`ZeroKnowledgeEncryptor::detect_hardware_acceleration()` on aarch64
without a compile-time `aes` target feature returned
`cfg!(target_feature = "neon")`. NEON is a default target feature on
every aarch64 target (`rustc --print cfg --target
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu`), so `hardware_acceleration_enabled()` was a
compile-time constant `true` on every aarch64 build. Cortex-A72-class
parts (Raspberry Pi 3/4) have NEON but no Crypto Extension: they
reported "hardware accelerated" while `ring` ran software AES. The one
platform class where the flag is useful for triage is the one where it
answered wrong.

## Change

- The aarch64 branch now uses
`std::arch::is_aarch64_feature_detected!("aes")` (stable since Rust
1.60; MSRV is 1.85). The compile-time `#[cfg(target_feature = "aes")] →
true` short-circuit is unchanged.
- First unit test for the flag:
`test_hardware_acceleration_matches_platform_probe` pins
`hardware_acceleration_enabled()` to the platform's own runtime probe on
x86/x86_64 and aarch64. Both `std::arch` probes fold to const `true`
when `aes` is enabled at compile time, so the same assertion covers the
short-circuit path (verified locally with `RUSTFLAGS="-C
target-feature=+aes"`).
- Docs: `OperationMetrics::hardware_accelerated` claimed acceleration
"was used (for SHA, AES, etc.)"; it now says what the bool is (the CPU
reports AES hardware; informational, the crypto backend dispatches on
its own). The module doc names the Armv8 Crypto Extension alongside
AES-NI.

Crypto dispatch is unchanged; the flag stays informational.

## Verification

- `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy --all-features -- -D warnings`,
`cargo test --all-features`, `cargo test --features ffi`, `cargo doc
--all-features --no-deps`: green on x86_64.
- The macOS arm64 CI lane compiles the short-circuit (`aes` is a default
feature on `aarch64-apple-darwin`), not the new probe line. The probe
expression was compiled for `aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` with `rustc
--emit=metadata` and passes clippy `-D warnings` there in a scratch
crate; a bogus feature name fails to compile, so the feature string is
checked at build time.

## Downstream

cachekit-rs, cachekit-ts and the protocol matrix currently document the
aarch64 behaviour as "`true` on every aarch64 build (NEON check)" dated
to core 0.6
([cachekit-rs#80](cachekit-io/cachekit-rs#80),
[cachekit-ts#132](cachekit-io/cachekit-ts#132),
[protocol#68](cachekit-io/protocol#68)). Those
caveats can be retired once this ships in a core release.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved detection of AES hardware acceleration on Arm64 devices by
checking the processor’s AES capability directly.
- Hardware acceleration reporting now more accurately reflects platform
support.

- **Documentation**
  - Documented Armv8 Crypto Extension support alongside AES-NI.
- Clarified that hardware acceleration status is informational and
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The example is the README's only dispose() call, so it is the shape readers copy. try/finally keeps dispose() on the rejection path; no catch, so the error still surfaces.
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