The ENCRPYT Act reintroduced in the House of Representatives last week would prevent states from passing laws to weaken or ban encryption.
A coalition of civil liberties groups from the U.S. and Europe is warning about the potential consequences of backdoors in encryption systems.
The EARN IT Act has now made its was into the House of Representatives, with a key change from the Senate version's stance on encryption.
A large coalition of privacy and civil liberty groups have sent a letter urging senators to oppose the EARN IT Act.
A new technique called the Raccoon attack can break the confidentiality of some TLS connections under certain circumstances.