Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours agoA federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut downwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1164arrow-down1external-linkA federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut downwww.techspot.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agothought it was proper e2e https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/ but if whatsapp owns both ends, what is stopping them from just reading the decrypted text? i duno crypto good enough
minus-squarelogi@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoThat, and if WhatsApp has the keys, then no amount of encryption is going to help. If I remember, the allegation was that they did keep all the keys and many employees could request them to decrypt specific sessions.
thought it was proper e2e
https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
but if whatsapp owns both ends, what is stopping them from just reading the decrypted text? i duno crypto good enough
That, and if WhatsApp has the keys, then no amount of encryption is going to help.
If I remember, the allegation was that they did keep all the keys and many employees could request them to decrypt specific sessions.