11.03pm BST Backstage now, in the Drown Your Sorrows dungeon.
The Drown attack only works if a server is compatible with an old version of the secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol that uses the weakened encryption algorithms.
The Drown attack research team says the disclosure of the method wasn't deliberately made the same morning Apple and the FBI argued their case in front of Congress.
The Drown attack method, or "Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption", could affect up to one third of all websites that use secure connections – addresses prefixed by "https".
It has cut kindergarten to half a day, eliminated all middle school sports but track and stopped the "drown proof" swimming program that was created to help children survive a fall into the Willamette River.
The team compared the Drown attack to previously revealed attacks called Freak, Poodle and Logjam, all of which were made possible by 1990s export laws that required US companies to deliberately weaken encryption algorithms used in products available overseas.
