I wonder what the current plans are with the project, it's been over a year since the last release - yet alone commits or other activity on GitHub. As they've started working on the project with a paper - I guess they'll might be continuously working on other associated aspects?

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm gonna assume it's a dead project. It has only 239 commits, basically a proof of concept. Nothing to take seriously. OpenBSD on the other hand is extremely active, there's no way OpenSSH will be dethroned anytime soon.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commits/master/