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Sep 14, 2026

A WAF that compiles with your spec

Most WAFs parse their rules at runtime and silently drop the ones they can't enforce. Barbacane validates an OWASP CRS rule set at build time, seals it into the signed artifact, and refuses to start if the rules and the binary disagree. Here's how it works, and why compile time is the right place for it.

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