quininer/sarkara

Sarkara is a historical artifact in the Rust cryptography ecosystem. While it garnered 136 stars, it is explicitly marked as unmaintained and is nearly a decade old. In the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), age is a significant liability; the NIST standardization process has moved through multiple rounds since this project's inception, rendering early 'experimental' implementations like this one both obsolete and potentially insecure. It lacks the rigorous auditing, performance optimization, and standard compliance found in modern libraries like 'ring', 'PQClean', or the 'RustCrypto' ecosystem. From an investment or utility perspective, the project has no moat—its value was as an early exploration of PQC in Rust, but it has been entirely displaced by standardized implementations. The displacement horizon is '6 months' only because it is effectively already displaced. Frontier labs would never use this; they rely on heavily vetted, industry-standard libraries (e.g., AWS-LC, BoringSSL) for their PQC needs.