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.
A group of academic researchers have developed practical attacks targeting two widely used end-to-end encryption schemes for email, which could lead to man-in-the-middle decryption attacks and exfiltration of private keys.