[mpyne]

> I also hope to see more non-standard crypto and protocols, where "the market" leads the way

This is super-dangerous, unless the amorphous "market" is also paying for cryptanalysts to bang on the crypto primitives as a public service to all competitors in the market.

After all, RSA adopting Dual EC DRBG was a business decision, and one which the market didn't reverse despite Dual EC DRBG being publically known to have a probable backdoor since 2007.