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How the protocol works, how it scales, and the honest trade-offs behind post-quantum payload encryption.

Engineering · June 18, 2026

Scaling Nen: one box to a global fleet

Does payload encryption survive a load-balanced, gateway-fronted fleet? Yes — with zero new code. The session lives in a shared SessionStore, not a process, so the app tier stays stateless and needs no sticky sessions.