Interesting. What makes this effort different from what OpenBSD is doing? I assume rather than the "nuke-from-orbit-and-start-fresh" approach, this will attempt to clean it up and keep platform interoperability and such still around?
Currently, Ohloh esimates $6.7 mega USD in code cost, but figure 3x for a crypto lib due to inherent challenges of correctness. [0]
The glee with which this is being done (looking at the commits) is palpable.