A few weeks ago, I wrote Rust Cryptography Should be Written in Rust. Briefly, I said we should have a FIPS-validated cryptography library that is written in 100% safe Rust. The next day, I received a message from the CEO of Ditto saying they want to financially support this. That effort is starting now. Now I am investigating adding a “FIPS mode” of the *ring* cryptography library that provides a