Second, Salsa is a work of just 1 man + few collaborators. Knowing the crypto community, this itself may be a reason for push back from it. Daniel J. Bernstein

Second, Salsa is a work of just 1 man + few collaborators. Knowing the crypto community, this itself may be a reason for push back from it. Daniel J. Bernstein, to be precise, also author of Djbdns, Qmail, NaCl, Curve25519, ... Some of which he solo authored. So I'd take the quoted skepticism with a huge grain of salt.