> 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

> 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.