[brians]

Akamai posted its special heap implementation</a> to openssl-dev yesterday: <http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=139723972124003&w=2>. We'll follow that up with help to adapt it to openssl's needs---which are much, much broader than our set of problems. We run 100k machines, sure---but all x86-64, almost all Linux, and all running substantially the same software. We don't use DTLS. We don't use any PAKE systems. We are, in some sense, an easy problem.

The OpenSSL Foundation is trying to help people with those needs and needs varying on every imaginable dimension communicate with secrecy and strong authentication. We should expect them to need several times as many developers full time on that problem as any of the planetary-scale computing companies.