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Cypher Centers For Communication is a privately funded cryptography consultant group that was founded by ex-NSA officials, Doris Lyons and Ty Waldman. They use modern cryptographic techniques, software, custom protocol and research to dive deep into the evolutions of linguistic, numeric and non-verbal communication for the purpose of consulting on and making recommendations to various organizations on creating and decoding leading-edge encryptions. (Link to Cyphers page)

Cypher Centers uses modern-day cryptography to provide consultation to different anonymous individuals and organizations looking to encode or decode ciphers, get advice on legal aspects of cryptographic communication, review and design security protocols, infrastructure, and design cryptographic algorithms. Their small team is comprised of about 50 intelligence personnel including, computer scientists, ex-NSA intelligence officials, renowned military cryptographers and mathematicians.

History
on January 3, 2000, after leaving the NSA to commit more time to her husband, ex-NSA intelligence officer, Doris Lyons founded Cypher Centers For Communication to satisfy her passion for cryptography and analysis on her own time. As a private research-based organization, Cypher Centers has since received funding from private angel investors, university funding, charity events, and other undisclosed individuals.

Under university funding, Cypher Centers For Communication was shut down and reopened on two separate accounts. On March 28, 2003, Cypher Centers was under investigation by the government (largely believed by many to specifically have been the NSA), who temporarily shut their website down on account of “a legal investigation on behalf of the Espionage Act”. The site was back up and running in one day.

On November 30, 2006, the Cypher Centers website appeared to be “under maintenance”. There is a conspiracy theory that the NSA once again took the website down for another review of the organization’s cryptography tactics, protocols and cases. It is believed that Doris Lyons and Ty Waldman were also being reviewed under claims of “forming the organization as a cover for leaking confidential government information.”

Present
After years of scrutiny, Cypher Centers is now privately funded. On October 4, 2015, the NSA hired Cypher Centers to decode transmission received by a military officer during World War II, believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. This leads many to now disregard any conspiracy theories about any NSA investigations into the company. A team of Cypher employees have been recruited to decode The Message, a non-verbal transmission received by military personnel at Station Hypo in Hawaii on July 21, 1945, largely believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. The team is currently being documented on a podcast series called Cyphercast.