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• Threshold cryptography:  we would like to have threshold signatures and other threshold crypto primitives.  We are planning on working towards building these.
• Post-quantum cryptography:  now that the NIST competition is in the final round, we feel like it is time to start providing options for post-quantum crypto primitives in Ursa.  Luckily, many of the teams behind these new key exchange protocols and signature schemes have written their code in Rust, so hopefully integration should be straightforward.  This will probably necessitate some work on our configuration options for the "base" Ursa primitives.
• Hyperledger Cactus is potentially interested in using Ursa.  This will require effort from both sides, but we may aim to work on our node.js wrappers to help them.

Maintainer Diversity

Current Active Maintainers:

• Mike Lodder (

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• Independent)
• Brent Zundel (Evernym Inc.)
• Dave Huseby (Linux Foundation)
• Hart Montgomery (Fujitsu)
• Dan Middleton (Intel)
• Cam Parra (Kiva)
• Dan Anderson (Intel)
• Jon Geater (Jitsuin)

Some of these maintainers are obviously more active than others.

Contributor Diversity

Current Contributor Affiliations:

• Independent (thanks Mike!)
• Evernym, Inc
• Intel
• BCGov
• Iqlusion
• Fujitsu
• Innopolis University (thanks Iroha team!)
• MediConCen Limited

This list is inexact and may be missing some people, but should be representative (lots of people don't have company information listed, and some are mostly working as contractors).  If you should be represented here and are not, please add yourself!  We would also like to thank Ry and others that made collecting all of this information easy with Community Bridge!

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