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Choose the records that deserve custody
Add documents, folders, submissions, or personal files that should not be treated like ordinary attachments.
Built in India for sovereign digital archivesView release
India-built archives for the quantum age.
Avikal protects important files in a new archive format where chess becomes the key language, post-quantum cryptography prepares for the future, and TimeCapsule release lets time become part of security.
Built For Digital Custody
Secure your most important files with absolute certainty.
Avikal is for people and institutions who want important files to be preserved with intention. It keeps the product simple on the surface while the archive carries Indian design, chess logic, time-release capability, and future-facing cryptography underneath.
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Seal them under your own secret
Use a password or Avikal's Devanagari keyphrase path. The secret stays with the owner, not with a company account.
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Let chess carry the archive record
A valid chess game becomes part of the protected archive identity, turning a familiar board into a serious security language.
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Prepare for the years ahead
Encrypted data is being harvested today, waiting for quantum computers to break it tomorrow—a reality known as 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later'. Avikal counters this with NIST-standard post-quantum protection.
India To The World
A sovereign archive idea with global language.
Born in India and built for the world, Avikal redefines how we protect our most valuable digital assets. By combining open-source transparency with uncompromising security principles, it delivers a universal standard for true data ownership.
Made on Indian soil
Avikal carries a clear message: serious security infrastructure can be imagined, built, and shared from India with global ambition.
Built for sovereign custody
Individuals, institutions, and teams can preserve important records without turning every file into a dependency on a distant platform.
No hidden rescue key
Real ownership has weight. If the password, keyphrase, or required keyfile is lost, Avikal does not keep a secret copy for recovery.
Open to inspection
The project is Apache 2.0 licensed and documented, so the architecture can be read, challenged, and improved in the open.
Chess Meets Quantum
Ancient strategy on the outside. Future cryptography inside.
This is the contrast that makes Avikal memorable: the psychology of chess, the discipline of open cryptography, and a key system that respects Indian language, all inside one archive experience.
A security story people remember in seconds.
Avikal does not ask the user to admire complexity. It lets them understand the idea quickly: preserve the file, bind its record to chess, and prepare the archive for a future where old assumptions may not be enough.
Files chosen
Chess record
Future guard
Archive signal
Five core protections work together: AES-256-GCM, Argon2id, SHA-256, HKDF key separation, and an OpenSSL-backed ML-KEM-1024 post-quantum layer.
Chess Contrast
A game of kings becomes a language for keys.
The archive does not only store hidden numbers. It carries a valid chess game as part of its protected record, making Avikal feel instantly different without asking the user to learn the machinery behind it.
Post-Quantum
NIST FIPS standards for the future threat model.
Powered by OpenSSL 3.5+, Avikal implements NIST's complete post-quantum suite: FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) for true long-term defense.
Devanagari Keyphrase
A Hindi word system makes strong secrets feel human.
Avikal introduces a first-of-its-kind Devanagari-based 21-word keyphrase path for this archive system, giving people strength without forcing them to stare at raw key material.
Clear Status
Standards are named, not hidden behind buzzwords.
Avikal integrates NIST's 2024 standards—FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA)—via a dedicated OpenSSL 3.5+ runtime. They operate as a verifiable defense layer, not a slogan.
Time As A Lock
Some archives should answer only to the future.
TimeCapsule is Avikal's release layer for files that should not open immediately: sealed submissions, scheduled disclosures, personal messages, legal records, or institutional archives.
drand is the public path. Aavrit is the upcoming RookDuel path for organizations that want a self-hostable time authority. Together, they turn time from a reminder into part of the archive design.
drand for public time release
drand gives Avikal a public randomness network for releases that should be independently checkable.
Aavrit for institutional control
Aavrit is an upcoming RookDuel project for self-hostable commit and reveal based TimeCapsules.
Designed for the waiting period
The archive stays sealed until the selected release condition is reached and verified.
Provider model
drand now / Aavrit upcoming
Quick Clarity
The important answers, without the maze.
Avikal is a secure archive system from India. You place important files inside it, seal them with your own secret, and save them as an Avikal archive for private storage or planned release.
Chess is not just branding. Avikal uses a valid chess game as part of the archive's protected key record, giving the format a distinctive structure that people can remember instantly.
Powered by an OpenSSL 3.5+ runtime, Avikal uses NIST's newly finalized standards—FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA)—to defend against the 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later' strategy, where actors collect encrypted data today to break it later.
The main named protections are AES-256-GCM for file protection, Argon2id for password hardening, SHA-256 for checks, HKDF for key separation, and optional ML-KEM-1024 for post-quantum key protection.
drand is a public randomness network used for public time-release flows. Aavrit is an upcoming RookDuel project planned for self-hostable commit and reveal based TimeCapsules.
Avikal introduces a first-of-its-kind Devanagari-based 21-word Hindi keyphrase path for this archive system, designed so strong secrets can feel writable, human, and rooted in Indian language.
No. Avikal has no recovery backdoor. If the password, keyphrase, or required keyfile is lost, the archive may be permanently inaccessible.
Preserve With Intent
A chess-born, quantum-ready archive system from India.
Download Avikal, inspect the source, and experience how sovereign thinking, Devanagari keyphrases, TimeCapsule release, and NIST-era post-quantum protection can live inside one archive format.