Even if this patent does go through it's not going to magically create demand for their product. The fact is Ecrypt is inferior patent or not. Probably the reason it's taking so long - whatever Ecrypt can do has already been done by other much, much larger companies.
How big is the team working on Ecrypt? Does anyone know? As far as I can tell the only person working on it is the person who created it. Cyber security is not a one man job, especially on the scale that Tom claims to be working towards.