The intelligence community's biggest Democratic supporter in Congress, Senator Dianne Feinstein, criticised technology companies for developing encryption technology.
That involves hiring the best cryptologists they can find in what Lofgren described as a developing "encryption race" between the private sector and government.
The agency plans to fight back against the rise of encryption through relationships with companies that develop encryption tools and through espionage operations.
So keep on, true-to-the-code blackhats for great justice: instead of selling out your skills to the industry competing for federal contracts supporting US empire, actively undermine it by contributing anti-state solutions by developing encryption, anti-censorship and anonymity infrastructure.
"Academic cryptographers can produce algorithms that are out of reach of the NSA," says Philip Zimmermann, PGP's founder, who left in January and now develops encryption for wireless phones.
National and international encryption standards have been generated for mobile technology, and researchers should use these when developing encryption and decryption algorithms.
Marlinspike developed his encryption tools with a grant from Radio Free Asia, which is funded by Congress.
Their say: Secomba has developed the encryption software BoxCryptor: BoxCryptor allows you to use cloud storage and access your data from everywhere without worrying about data security or giving up comfort.
UK-based Post-Quantum, aka PQ, which was founded all the way back in 2009, has been bootstrapping and toiling up this hill for years, having developed an encryption system designed to be proofed against cracking by quantum computers.
