guanzhi/zkrypt

zkrypt is a stagnant repository with minimal community engagement (35 stars over 4.5 years). In the rapidly evolving landscape of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, where frameworks like Circom, Gnark (ConsenSys), Noir (Aztec), and Halo2 have become industry standards, a project with zero velocity is effectively a legacy artifact. It functions more as a personal reference implementation than a viable infrastructure tool. The Zero-Knowledge space has undergone a massive paradigm shift in the last 24 months toward Plonk-based systems and high-level ZK-languages; zkrypt represents an older era of manual primitive construction. It offers no competitive advantage against modern ZK-VMs or highly optimized proving systems. Its primary risk is irrelevance rather than competition from frontier labs, who would utilize much more mature and audited stacks for privacy-preserving AI or federated learning.