So what if someone tried to crowdfund a new implementation (or a thorough rewrite of OpenSSL, if that makes more sense). Could they raise something on the orde

So what if someone tried to crowdfund a new implementation (or a thorough rewrite of OpenSSL, if that makes more sense). Could they raise something on the order of $1M? It seems like it would cost that much for, I'm guessing, three absolutely top developers for two years. Unlike a lot of crowdfunded projects, this one would not launch a business -- there's no additional revenue opportunity for the developers once it's completed -- so the amount would have to compensate them not just for their time but also for their opportunity cost. On the other hand, given the importance of TLS to the Internet, $1M seems less than trivial -- literally pocket change, if the cost were well distributed among the millions of websites using SSL. What do you think? Could it be done?