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In the wake of BULLRUN revelations, some open source projects, including [[FreeBSD]] and [[OpenSSL]], have seen an increase in their reluctance to (fully) trust hardware-based cryptographic primitives.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goodin |first=Dan |url=http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/ |title="We cannot trust" Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say |publisher=Ars Technica |date=2013-12-10 |accessdate=2014-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Torvalds shoots down call to yank 'backdoored' Intel RdRand in Linux crypto|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/torvalds_on_rrrand_nsa_gchq/}}</ref>
Many other software projects, companies and organizations responded with an increase in the evaluation of their security and encryption processes. For example, Google doubled the size of their SSL encryption keys from 1,024 bits to 2,048 bits.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google certificates upgrade in progress|url=http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/07/google-certificates-upgrade-in-progress.html}}</ref>
Revelations of the NSA backdoors and purposeful complication of standards has led to a backlash in their participation in standards bodies.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying</ref> Prior to the revelations the NSA's presence on these committees was seen as a benefit given their expertise with encryption.<ref>http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12325.html</ref>
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