Small nit:

Currently Elixir pushes users to call Erlang when working with crypto. This 
> doesn't align with Elixirs goal of developer productivity.


I've always found the ability to dip into erlang a major factor of Elixir's 
promise of developer productivity. :D

I agree with the sentiment that the experience could be much improved, both 
by contributing to OTP, as well as perhaps creating a higher-level Elixir 
swiss army knife geared towards common applications of erlang's modules.

I wanted to contribute a point alluded to here but not directly stated: a 
major virtue of a vogue or standard crypto library living outside core is 
that vulnerabilities can be patched and deployed infinitely faster that the 
language itself. This agility is a commonly stated motive to have feature 
proposals be implemented outside of the language instead, but crypto seems 
a particularly compelling domain in which to prioritize that responsiveness.

I am willing to help maintain it. But I definitely can't do this all by 
> myself so I'm looking for support.


I wish I could be of more help but I'd be useful as a maintenance triager 
only, it's beyond my realm of expertise. But I recommend making a post on 
the forums, perhaps to funnel interested parties into a dedicated #crypto 
channel on slack? I can see a lot of people there being interested in 
contributing.

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