From the post

> with the help of funding from Alpha-Omega

From the site:

> funded by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon

Also it's a Linux Foundation project.

Interesting. Python's a big community, and there's some disagreement here over whether this would be better done in pure python. I think it's good that there's a rust/cloud contingent in python land but hope pure python remains popular.

For the record: I shopped this project to them; it didn’t originate as an idea from LF or any major company. The idea itself came from PyCA’s maintainers, who have wanted this for a while.

(The native code desirability question is also a red herring here, since PyCA has and will always need to have native code for cryptographic operations. So having a first class ASN.1 API in PyCA was always going to involve native code, with the only variable being how.)