FBI, intelligence officials urge collaboration on 'strong encryption' issues

FBI Director James Comey today said a dialogue with the technology sector on policy issues around "strong encryption" is improving and stressed the federal government is not seeking to impose an answer to the problem of advanced technologies putting communications beyond the reach of law enforcement.

Comey said he did not have the answer to tensions between the benefits of strong encryption and the need to get at the communications of terrorists and criminals with a court order. The Obama...