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This is a very important point. When it comes to implementing new software, especially in a critical field like crypto, it takes a long time for acceptance to build.

As alpha software, I'd be shocked if anyone was using it in a production capacity, but it could be useful for early investigations into issues like timing attacks - clearly, it's better to get them sorted before a "final" release. I'd hope that any project planning to adopt this or any) crypto code was first getting it analysed carefully.

On the other hand, quite a bit of existing crypto is there because it was the first implementation on a given platform, despite potentially having issues - think about heartbleed, which was missed for quite a while in very heavily used software. It's not always bad to have fresh alternatives, as long as they are approached cautiously.




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