snbhowmik/QAVACH

QAVACH is an early-stage prototype (0 stars, 31 days old) that applies emerging NIST post-quantum standards to the specific niche of Indian e-governance. While the use case is critical—preparing national infrastructure for the 'Q-Day' threat to RSA/ECC—the project currently lacks a technical moat. It functions primarily as a demonstration of how standardized PQC libraries (like those from the Open Quantum Safe project) can be wrapped for a specific regulatory context (DigiLocker/Aadhaar). Defensibility is low because the core logic relies on public standards that any large IT contractor (TCS, Infosys) or the Indian government's NIC (National Informatics Centre) could implement with higher assurance levels. Frontier labs (OpenAI/Anthropic) are unlikely to compete here as this is a sovereign infrastructure play, but the project faces high displacement risk from established cybersecurity firms like PQShield or QuSecure if they target the Indian market. The 3 forks suggest some academic or peer interest, but without an active contributor base or official government pilot, it remains a personal experiment.