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>...encrypted apps use SMS authentication to identify and authenticate users participating in encrypted conversations Is this true? Because it's common knowled
by vezycash 11y ago
>...encrypted apps use SMS authentication to identify and authenticate users participating in encrypted conversations
Is this true? Because it's common knowledge that SMS is insecure. So I don't understand how why anyone would want to use it for secure authentication - especially in the case of Whatsapp.
- april1stislame 11y agoAsk Moxie? He uses it for Signal also, and unlike WhatsApp, Signal is "sold" as secure...
- pfg 11y agoI don't think anyone has implied that E2E-crypto without out-of-band key verification is bulletproof. Both WhatsApp and Signal allow you to do that.
- lucb1e 11y agoAnd Telegram. If someone bothers checking this they'd also use Telegram's secret chats which do have open source end to end encryption.