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WhatsApp allows you to verify keys. Apple doesn't. This makes a pretty big difference. Also, iMessage's crypto protocol is cryptographically broken. It's been

WhatsApp allows you to verify keys. Apple doesn't. This makes a pretty big difference. Also, iMessage's crypto protocol is cryptographically broken. It's been patched together in ways that prevent the obvious attack, but don't actually fix the underlying issue. Doing so involves replacing the protocol. In the mean time, those patches are not fool proof and someone may get around them.

pilif 11y ago
> Whats App allows you to verify keys. Apple doesn't. This makes a pretty big difference. Does it? It allows me to verify a key. It doesn't give me any ability to control what other keys it's working with. This only helps me to make sure that the message I just got, I actually got from the person it's claiming to be. It doesn't give me any other protection though. I agree about the broken iMessage crypto and I hope to see Apple upgrade the protocol in a future OS release. With their quick uptake of new OSes, a fix could propagate relatively quickly.