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.
Law enforcement officials and lawmakers asking the technology industry to provide backdoors into encryption products is not anything new, but U.S. Attorney General William Barr did something past officials hadn't done before: Barr specified that the backdoors and workarounds should be in encrypted messaging apps.