Another member of the working group, Zoe Lofgren, has been trying protect encryption since before it was cool. In 2014, she attempted to push through an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have prevented any public institution from requiring software, hardware, or standards organizations to “build in a backdoor to circumvent the encryption or privacy protection of its products.” When that failed, she later co-sponsored as separate bill—the Secure Data Act of 2014—to the same effect, which also did not pass. Lofgren has been a staunch encryption advocate, though, and should continue to be a powerful voice on the subject at a time when there’s more political will that matches her own.