“It is likely that encryption, end-to-end encryption, was used to communicate between those individuals in Belgium, in France and in Syria,” said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), following a closed-door briefing for committee members on Tuesday. “It’s a wake-up call for America and our global partners that globally, we need to begin the debate on what we do on encrypted networks, because it makes us blind to the communications and to the actions of potential adversaries.”

Karoun Demirjian, “Senators Want to Give Government Access to Encrypted Communications to Combat Terrorism”

American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.

David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, “Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks”