diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fac439d..b701b52 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -256,6 +256,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.39",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "arrayref"
+version = "0.3.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6b4930d2cb77ce62f89ee5d5289b4ac049559b1c45539271f5ed4fdc7db34545"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.7.4"
@@ -349,6 +355,20 @@ version = "1.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "02bef9e74b5908bed0360844109a55b62b07cc973274c11d3a577bda8cc1cf60"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "blake3"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0231f06152bf547e9c2b5194f247cd97aacf6dcd8b15d8e5ec0663f64580da87"
+dependencies = [
+ "arrayref",
+ "arrayvec",
+ "cc",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "constant_time_eq",
+ "rayon",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "block-buffer"
 version = "0.10.4"
@@ -465,6 +485,12 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3d7b894f5411737b7867f4827955924d7c254fc9f4d91a6aad6b097804b1018b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "constant_time_eq"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f7144d30dcf0fafbce74250a3963025d8d52177934239851c917d29f1df280c2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "convert_case"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -1380,6 +1406,7 @@ name = "piped-proxy"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-web",
+ "blake3",
  "image",
  "libwebp-sys",
  "mimalloc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9eb7f35..4b9c254 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ rgb = { version = "0.8.37", optional = true }
 
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 regex = "1.10.2"
+blake3 = { version = "1.5.0", features = ["rayon"], optional = true }
 
 [features]
-default = ["webp", "mimalloc", "reqwest-rustls"]
+default = ["webp", "mimalloc", "reqwest-rustls", "qhash"]
 
 reqwest-rustls = ["reqwest/rustls-tls"]
 reqwest-native-tls = ["reqwest/default-tls"]
@@ -37,5 +38,7 @@ mimalloc = ["dep:mimalloc"]
 
 optimized = ["libwebp-sys?/sse41", "libwebp-sys?/avx2", "libwebp-sys?/neon"]
 
+qhash = ["blake3"]
+
 [profile.release]
 lto = true
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 3e50b9e..e6c879a 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -137,6 +137,53 @@ async fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn Error>> {
     // parse query string
     let query = QString::from(req.query_string());
 
+    #[cfg(feature = "qhash")]
+    {
+        use std::collections::BTreeSet;
+
+        let secret = env::var("HASH_SECRET");
+        if let Ok(secret) = secret {
+            let qhash = query.get("qhash");
+
+            if qhash.is_none() {
+                return Err("No qhash provided".into());
+            }
+
+            let qhash = qhash.unwrap();
+
+            // check that qhash is valid
+            if qhash.len() != 8 {
+                return Err("Invalid qhash provided".into());
+            }
+
+            // store sorted key-value pairs
+            let mut set = BTreeSet::new();
+
+            query.to_pairs().iter().for_each(|(key, value)| {
+                if matches!(*key, "qhash" | "range" | "rewrite") {
+                    return;
+                }
+                set.insert((key.as_bytes(), value.as_bytes()));
+            });
+
+            let mut hasher = blake3::Hasher::new();
+
+            for (key, value) in set {
+                hasher.update(key);
+                hasher.update(value);
+            }
+
+            hasher.update(secret.as_bytes());
+
+            let hash = hasher.finalize().to_hex();
+            let hash = &hash[..8];
+
+            if hash != qhash {
+                return Err("Invalid qhash provided".into());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     let res = query.get("host");
     let res = res.map(|s| s.to_string());