Some recent events have me excited again about my encryption projects. After spending quite a bit of time on my JavaScript implementation of AES (ecmaScript [1]) and then porting it to Python [2], I left it to stagnate. After an inquiry about whether I had updated my code to fix a shortcoming (I hadn't) and then another from Alex Martelli asking about my interest in starting an OSS project based on my code, I decided it was time to wipe the dust off and take Alex up on his offer. The result is SlowAES [3].