Lawmakers want congressional encryption commission

Published January 20, 2016 3:43am ET



A bipartisan pair of lawmakers are nearly ready to introduce legislation that would create a congressional commission on encryption, they told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday.

“The idea of having a debate about a backdoor into encryption could have happened fifteen years ago, but now the horse is [out of] the barn. … I don’t believe there’s a single silver bullet in a legislative way,” said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

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