The only person who can "protect encryption" is you.

No government, nor regulatory body, nor judiciary is going to demand that you have easy access to mathematical constructs.

They may even force some entities to only provided weak approximations.

But the math exists regardless.

At some point, at some time, the fight against encryption becomes a fight against speech, and knowledge, itself.

And like those fundamental rights, the only way to protect them, is to exercise them, continuously.