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einmaldrin_alleshin t1_j9xkeqd wrote

Reply to comment by duh374 in Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption by ActivePersona

You can actually read out the public key from Whatsapp and use that to verify the encryption scheme.

But that would be of little use if they could extract private keys or plaintext messages from the device.

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Prestigious_Push_947 t1_j9zp767 wrote

Whatsapp doesn't encrypt metadata though, which is a massive security vulnerability. There's absolutely no excuse to be using whatsapp.

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