I laud your efforts. Whenever someone announces a project like this one, one of the top comments is invariably one that promotes Openssl over other TLS implemen

I laud your efforts. Whenever someone announces a project like this one, one of the top comments is invariably one that promotes Openssl over other TLS implementations. I find this "leave it to the experts" attitude unjustifiable, since it more or less translates to "trust the experts". Experts? Take a look at the source. Look up the scrolls of bug reports. Experts indeed. This tends to hurt efforts to create Openssl alternatives, and makes crypto/security protocols seem like the black art of a chosen few. Security is hard - all the more reason to encourage more people to be involved. And in any case, experts have to start somewhere.