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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>{{cite web|title=The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back|url=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>
There has been speculation that the NSA was aware of the [[Heartbleed]] bug, which caused major websites to be vulnerable to password theft, but did not reveal this information in order to exploit it themselves.<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html</ref>
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