Yes, he deserves engineering prizes. In one of his talks he shows the OpenSSH 6.5 changelog - a release in which they adopt both "his" 25519 curve and chacha20

Yes, he deserves engineering prizes. In one of his talks he shows the OpenSSH 6.5 changelog - a release in which they adopt both "his" 25519 curve and chacha20-poly1305 as new features.